On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> what would be the "usual suspects" to look into when seemingly empty
> staves just don't disappear with \RemoveEmptyStaves
>
> ?
>
> As this is most surely some issue with my set-up I can't come up with a
> minimal example, but the score looks like this:
>
> \score {
> \new PianoStaff <<
> \new Staff = "up" <<
> \structure
> \v.1
> \v.2
> >>
> \dyn.1
> \new Staff = "mid" <<
> \structure
> \v.3
> \v.4
> >>
> \dyn.2
> \new Staff = "lo" <<
> \structure
> \v.5
> >>
> >>
> }
>
> with
>
> \layout {
> \context {
> \Staff
> \numericTimeSignature
> \RemoveEmptyStaves
> }
> }
>
> \structure can't be the culprit (I suspected I had some hidden content
> in there) because I can simply comment that out with the empty staff
> still not disappearing.
>
The real culprit is that PianoStaff keeps all its Staff contexts alive
unless they are ALL empty for the entire system. Look at the PianoStaff's
context definition for the relevant keepAliveInterface data and that should
lead you to the solution.
HTH,
Abraham
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