On 25.11.2013, at 14:34, Kai Lautenschläger <kai.lautenschlae...@me.com> wrote: > As you can see in the following not so tiny example inserting the ambitus > makes the \RemoveEmptyStaves command ineffective. I reduced your example quite a bit and the problem is still there: \RemoveEmptyStaves does not show any effect in staves containing voices in which the ambitus engraver is added. AFAICS you are right and this is a bug.
\version "2.17.95" \score { << \new Staff { R1 \break \new Voice % \with { \consists "Ambitus_engraver" } %uncomment this line to see the effect \relative { a'4 b c d } } \new Staff { c'1 \break \new Voice \with { \consists "Ambitus_engraver" } \relative { a'4 b c d } } >> \layout { \context { \Staff \RemoveEmptyStaves \override VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t } } } hth patrick _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond