On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 08:56, Evan Driscoll <
evaned@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am probably missing something fundamental in my LilyPond knowledge that would help with the following question, but I'm not sure what it is, and I'm having a lot more difficulty than normal figuring out what to look for in the manual.
>
> Anyway, the piece starts off in unison, then has a div. section written on multiple staffs, then comes back together.
>
> I can get multiple staffs with
> <<
> { ...top part.. }
> \new Staff { ...bottom part ...}
> >>
> but what I really want is a staff group. The bracket on the left would be nice, but even more critical are the shared barlines.
>
> However, I can't figure out how to get a \new StaffGroup to work. If I use it as shown in the manual (but for the top-level staff creation) with my two inside, then I get *three* staves, the first one just empty.
>
> LilyBin exemplar with a couple of my attempts:
http://lilybin.com/ul6alr/5Hello,
In this case I typically use a combination of Keep_alive_together_engraver and VerticalAxisGroup.remove-layer with keepAliveInterfaces.
See NR 1.6.2 Modifying single staves > Hiding staves