Re: Hara Kiri staff behavior

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Richard Shann" <address@hidden>
To: "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 4:30 PM
Subject: Hara Kiri staff behavior


> I'm currently baffled by not finding the documentation for Hara Kiri
> staffs. That is a staff that only has whole measure rests for a line is
> dropped. I thought this was the default, and I thought I had looked it
> up before, but now I can only find obscure (to me) references to
> RemoveEmptyStaves and the hara kiri engraver
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/context-modification-identifiers#index-RemoveEmptyStaves
>
> which says
> The following commands are defined for use as context modifications
> within a \layout or \with block.
>
> RemoveEmptyStaves
>
>
> This leaves me wondering what a "command" is in this context - what do I
> write inside
>
> \layout { }
>
> to get the desired behavior? I dpn't even see anything in LSR for
> this ...
>
> Richard Shann

Look in the index for the command \RemoveEmptyStaves

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Phil Holmes