Re: Ossia problem

[Simon Albrecht]

On 29.12.2015 17:32, Abraham Lee wrote:
> David,
>
> On Tuesday, December 29, 2015, David Kastrup <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Ralph Palmer <address@hidden <javascript:;>> writes:
>
>     > Greetings -
>     >
>     > I'm running ly 2.19.33 under Win7.
>     >
>     > I'm trying to remove the first line of the ossia staff from the
>     attached
>     > score. I would appreciate it if someone could tell me where I'm
>     going wrong.
>
>     You are missing an
>
>         \override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-first = ##t
>
>     in a suitable place.  While setting VerticalAxisGroup.remove-empty
>     has a
>     predefined alias \RemoveEmptyStaves, VerticalAxisGroup.remove-first
>     doesn't.
>
>
> Any reason we can't add a similar alias for remove-first (e.g., 
> \RemoveFirstEmptyStaff)? And why not extend it to also have 
> \RemoveAllEmptyStaves that does both? Seems like a simple, but useful 
> addition. I know I would use them regularly.

<https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4744/>
We’ll see how it is reviewed.

Yours, Simon