Re: Are cross-staff beams and 'remove-empty *really* not compatible?

[Trevor Daniels]

Valentin Villenave wrote Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:21 AM


> Greetings,
>
> NR1.2.4 says:
>
> Known issues and warnings
> Automatically kneed cross-staff beams cannot be used together with
> hidden staves.
>
> Why?
>
> The following piece of code works well (and if you uncomment the 
> last
> line, an ugly #76 collision happens)
>
> \layout {
>  \context {
>    \Staff
>    \remove Axis_group_engraver
>    \consists Hara_kiri_engraver
>    %\override Beam #'auto-knee-gap = #'()
>    \override VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-empty = ##t
>  }
> }

I can't see why the warning is there either.  I've tried various
combinations and all seem to work perfectly.  The wording of
the warning has changed several times over the years.  It was
originally added by Han-Wen on 10 June 2002 (!) as,

"Auto knee beams can not be used together with hara kiri staffs."

So much has changed since 2002 that it is quite likely this
restriction no longer applies.  I'll remove it from the docs
unless someone shouts quickly.

Trevor