Re: Another case of “temporary staff not ending”

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 23/09/2022 à 14:02, David Kastrup a écrit :
> Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:
>
> > I believe this exhibits a bug:
> >
> > \version "2.23.14"
> >
> > {
> >    \new Staff { c'1 }
> >    \new Devnull { s1 }
> > }
> >
> >
> > I would have expected the staff to stop after one measure.
> >
> > Does anyone see a reason for this behavior being correct,
> > or am I right that it is another bug similar to the “temporary
> > staff not ending” bug fixed by Dan in 74af697126?
> It is documented behavior.  "Keeping contexts alive" starts with it:
>
> [...]
>
> You can either enclose your Staff in << ... >> or you can end its visual
> impact using \stopStaff .



Thanks, that is helpful. I don't fully understand the quoted
documentation passage to be honest, but at least I know how to
deal with it.