Re: 3 staff piano score

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: 3 staff piano score


> Gabriel Striewe <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > >in some, especially contemporary piano literature, a piano can have 
> > > >more
> > > >than 2 staffs, for example three or four, usually only for the duration
> > > >of a few bars.
> > > >
> > > >I usually notate my music using \parallelMusic.
> > > >
> > > >My question is: how do I achive this? I would like a third or fourth
> > > >staff to appear only during some bars, not continuously.
> >
> > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/staff-notation#staff-notation-adding-an-extra-staff
>
> So why aren't you doing it in that way?

There are alternative options: the OP's original code will work with this 
alteration:

\layout {
\context {
\Staff \RemoveEmptyStaves
\override VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t
}
\context {
\PianoStaff
\remove "Keep_alive_together_engraver"
}
}

I'd say this is a bug in the documentation.

--
Phil Holmes