Re: Empty Staves & Overriding Sequences

[Malte Meyn]

Am 24.01.2018 um 02:58 schrieb joedavnport:
> Q1. Is there a way to create (and show) an empty stave in a score, 
> rather than creating {s1 s1 s1} spaces?

You can write s1*3 instead of s1 s1 s1 ;)

> Q2. Sometimes I want to omit a phrasing for certain files (e.g. showing 
> repeat marks), instead of showing the variation for a repeated phrase, 
> or section. Feel free to share if this seems more or less integriful 
> (music wise) but for the most part I'm wondering if it can be done 
> beside phrases ordered within a single variable.

Have a look at the \tag command and its friends \keepWithTag, 
\removeWithTag and (if you use LilyPond 2.19.xx) \tagGroup. See section 
3.3.2 of the notation reference:

2.18.2 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/different-editions-from-one-source.html
2.19.80 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/different-editions-from-one-source.html