start engraving at specified measure

[Michael Winter]

Hello,

Is it possible to start engraving at a specified measure or to omit the first x measure.

Note that I am not trying to create a fragment here. I just want to drop x given empty measures at the beginning of a particular staff (without removing empty staves past a certain point).

I tried to temporarily turn on and off

Staff.VerticalAxisGroup.remove-empty

But that did not seem to work with multiple voices (at least the reverting part).

Thanks,

Michael.