Re: Temporarily override frenched score

[Aberforth D - Instrumentals]

Thanks Lukas-Fabian,

This is perfect and it will be very helpful in many situations. Regarding your question: No, I was applying it to the 2nd system. If I put the command \showMultiRests before the first bar of any system, it seems to have no effect, but it works fine when I put it before any other bar on the staff. As I rarely have just 1 bar on a staff this should not be a problem in practice.

Thanks,

Aberforth D

On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 15:06, Lukas-Fabian Moser <lfm@gmx.de> wrote:

Hi,

Am 29.06.20 um 14:41 schrieb Aberforth D - Instrumentals:
> It works although it doesn't seem to work when applied to the first
> bar on the staff, but I guess it's good enough.

Do you mean that the staff is not removed in the first system? That's
just the difference between \RemoveEmptyStaves und \RemoveAllEmptyStaves.

> I would still be grateful if somebody could answer my second question
> because it might be useful in specific circumstances. Namely, how to
> hide a redundant staff when it doubles another staff without having to
> replace the notes by rests, as described in my original message.

The keepAliveInterfaces list defines which types of "event" prevent a
staff from being removed. So:

%%%%
\version "2.20.0"
\language "english"

\layout {
   \context {
     \Staff
     \RemoveAllEmptyStaves
   }
}

killMeAtAllCosts = \set Staff.keepAliveInterfaces = #'()
resurrectMe = \undo \killMeAtAllCosts

fillBar = \relative c' { g'8[ g g g g g] | }
fillLine = { \fillBar \fillBar \fillBar \fillBar }

partA = {
   \key d \major \time 6/8 \clef "G"
   \fillLine \break
   \killMeAtAllCosts \fillLine \break \resurrectMe
   \fillLine
}

partB = {
   \key d \major \time 6/8 \clef "G"
   \fillLine
   \fillLine
   \fillLine
}

\score {
   <<
     \new Staff \with { shortInstrumentName = "Pt A" } \partA
     \new Staff \with { shortInstrumentName = "Pt B" } \partB
   >>
}

%%%%

Lukas