Re: hiding only one empty staff

[Michael Lauer]

Zoltán Selyem <sese <at> elte.hu> writes:

> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to hide staff lines that only have rests,
> but I'd like to do this for only one staff,
> not all of them. Can LilyPond do that?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Zoltán
> 

Create the staff that can be hidden like this (from the definition of
RemoveEmptyStaffContext):

    \new Staff \with
    {
          \remove "Axis_group_engraver"
          \consists "Hara_kiri_engraver"
          \override Beam #'auto-knee-gap = #'()
          \override VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-empty = ##t
    }
    {
        %music... 
    }

If you want a particular staff to be hidden in some sections and not in others,
you can trick it into displaying with a transparent (non-whole-measure) rest:

        << { R1 } { \once \override Rest #'transparent = ##t r1 } >>

[Note: this is all in 2.10.23]

Michael