Alex Voice wrote > Hi Lilypond Experts, > > In a small orchestral score that incorporates an intermittent chorale-like > string quartet, I'd like to have all staves showing at the start (I think > I've worked that bit out), but thereafter remove the quartet StaffGroup > from > the score unless one or more of the parts of the quartet is playing, in > which case I would like to see all four parts of the quartet (even if > their > staves are empty) just for ease of following.
I think this is handled by the /Keep_alive_together_engraver/ in your example, add: \layout { \context { \GrandStaff \consists Keep_alive_together_engraver } } hth Eluze -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Removing-empty-systems-groups-tp134424p134469.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user