In my opinion, the simplest way to do this is to use the following:
\layout {
\context {
\RemoveEmptyStaffContext
\override VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t
}
}
which gets rid of staves with no information in them, and then fill the staves
with Whole Measure Rests (WMRs) except where you have the music. A couple of
line beaks to get the right line length, and you're done.
You can put multiple WMRs in one piece of notation by writing R1*x/y*z, where
x/y is the time signature, and z the number of WMRs you want.
--
Phil Holmes
----- Original Message -----
From: Brent Annable
To: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 1:49 PM
Subject: Instantiating temporary staves with text
Hello everybody,
I'm currently trying to produce a piece that is mostly on two staves, but at
the end splits briefly into four staves and then back into two. I'm doing it by
adding the extra staves to the top staff for those few bars and forcing line
breaks so that it looks neat on the page. Everything goes fine until I try to
add lyrics to the third line from the top (the line with the tenor clef) -
using the \addlyrics command makes everything go haywire - the lyrics appear
below the bass staff, staves cut off mid-page and the last section of the
melody turns into chords instead of single notes. Commenting out the line of
lyrics code fixes everything again, so as far as I can see it's purely the
addition of the lyrics that causes the problem.
I've reproduced the last few systems in a minimum (!) example to demonstrate,
but because there's still a lot of formatting I've included the files as
attachments. I hope that's OK. The only difference between the -right and
-wrong .txt files is the commenting out of the \addlyrics command for the tenor
staff.
I guess my question is: am I doing something wrong? Or is there a better way
to do instantiate temporary staves than this?
Thanks for any help,
Brent.
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