Re: Hara kiri staffs takes up space

[Erik Sandberg]

On Thursday 26 January 2006 02.00, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> Hi!
> I have a problem with removing empty staffs, it seems they are not
> actually removed but only made transparent, so they still take up space
> on the paper and does not give that space to the next staff. In this
> perticular case I would fit twice as many systems on my first few pages
> but know all I get is big white spaces between the systems.
>
> The empty staffs contains \skip's. I'm using 2.7.20. Is this a bug? 

Possibly, yes.

> Is 
> there anything I can do?
You can send a bugreport (including minimal, compilable example) to 
bug-lilypond. Chances are it's the same problem as 
hara-kiri-pianostaff-instr.ly in the bug archive, so you could check that 
first (follow one of the links below).

-- 
Erik Sandberg
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