Re: \RemoveEmptyStaves not removing first line

[Thomas Morley]

Am Do., 1. Nov. 2018 um 16:24 Uhr schrieb Kieren MacMillan
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>
> Hi Werner,
>
> > +1.  I've *never* seen an ambitus except at the very beginning of a piece.
>
> I often use an ambitus in front- or end-matter, to give vocal ranges separate 
> from the score itself. Of course, "front-matter" can be interpreted as "the 
> very beginning of a piece", but I think of it as entirely separate from the 
> piece — and end-matter is definitely not "the very beginning of a piece".
>
> Not trying to battle semantics — just giving a use case, and putting forward 
> my concern that any changes to the Ambitus engraver shouldn’t eliminate the 
> possibility of using it somewhere other than the "traditional place" (i.e., 
> immediately to the left of the first measure of a vocal staff).

I'd second Werner.
Though, it's already possible to do:

{
  \new Voice = "intro"
    { R1*4 \break }

  \new Voice
    \with { \consists "Ambitus_engraver" }
     \relative c' {
       \override AmbitusNoteHead.break-visibility = ##(#f #f #t)
       \override AmbitusLine.break-visibility = ##(#f #f #t)
       c4 d e f g a b c |
       \break
       b2 c |
       d1
    }
}

alas not very convenient.


Cheers,
  Harm