Re: staff groups.....deletable?

[Limao Luo]

Limao Luo <luolimao <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> I have a piece in which I have combined the violin 1 and violin 2 parts 
> because
> the notes in the first thirty or so measures are the same; however, when I try
> to use the \new StaffGroup command to separate the notes into two different
> staves, I find that there are three staves all in a column; however, I want to
> be able to get rid of the staff they were originally combined on in the first
> thirty measures. Is this at all possible?
> 
> The excerpt of code I used that produced this unwanted bug is as follows:
> 
> {
> \time 7/8 d8-> (cis) b a-> (b) fis-> (g)
> \new StaffGroup << \new Staff { \time 3/8 a4 e'8}  \new Staff { a (a,) e'} >>
> }
> 

If necessary, I have included the entire section of music that I have completed
(both the .ly file and .pdf file) before I ran into this problem here:

http://luolimao.webs.com/OvertureWindViolin.pdf
http://luolimao.webs.com/OvertureWindViolin.ly