On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 11:42 PM Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 04:12, Ralph Palmer <palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi -
> >
> > Thanks for all your work, for helping users, and for LilyPond itself.
> I've been using LilyPond and Frescobaldi for a long time, mostly on
> Linux/Ubuntu.
> >
> > I'm currently running LilyPond 2.24.0 and Frescobaldi 3.2 on
> Linux/Ubuntu.
> >
> > I'm trying to transcribe the viola parts for Saint-Saens' Le Deluge for
> my personal use, but trying to keep it close to the original. My problem is
> that there are 8 lines of score with single staves, and then multiple lines
> with Solo and Tutti staves. The first line with two staves has all rests in
> the Solo staff. I can get LilyPond to go single staff for the opening, but
> I can't get it to do that and keep the first (all rests) line of the Solo
> part. I'm attaching a photo of the original score where it switches from
> single staff to two staves per system, as well as two .ly files and their
> PDFs from my attempts to reproduce the original. It's not a make or break
> problem, but I would like to know what I might be doing wrong or what I
> might do differently. I'm using \Staff \RemoveEmptyStaves in \context.
>
> Hello,
>
> In that case I would use a Keep_alive_together_engraver and different
> VerticalAxisGroup remove-layer values and setting/unsetting
> Staff.keepAliveInterfaces where desired.
> There is a small example with Violins I & II and separate staves V I and V
> II in the documentation.
> NR 1.6.2 Modifying single staves > Hiding staves
>
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/modifying-single-staves#hiding-staves
>
> Otherwise if you want to keep your \RemoveEmptyStaves solution you can
> cheat and include a transparent note at the beginning of the Andantino
> Solo.
>
> Cheers,
> Xavier
>
> --
> Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com>
>
>
Thanks, Xavier - I'll take a closer look at the Documentation link and see
what I can do.

All the best,

Ralph
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