Re: Displaying a staff despite \removeEmptyStaves

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Anton,

> Is it possible to force an empty staff to be displayed occasionally when 
> \removeEmptyStaves is used?

You need to add multi-measure-rest-interface to the keepAliveInterfaces for 
that staff.

Here are the two bits of syntactic sugar I use:

showMMRs = {
  \set Staff.keepAliveInterfaces =
    #'( rhythmic-grob-interface
        multi-measure-rest-interface
        lyric-interface
        stanza-number-interface
        percent-repeat-interface) }
hideMMRs = \unset Staff.keepAliveInterfaces

So put a \showMMRs in your music expression at the point where you want to 
force that Staff context to appear (despite having \RemoveEmptyStaves active), 
and put a \hideMMRs when you want it to return to “default” (i.e., the Staff 
will disappear, if possible).

Hope this helps!
Kieren.
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