Another way to get the extra Staff not to appear is to add the following to
your \layout block:
\context {
\Score
\accepts NullVoice
}
As an aside directed more at the dev community: is there any good reason
not to make this the default behavior (and similar for StaffGroup, etc.)?
NullVoice is defined with both Staff and Voice as aliases. I would have
assumed this meant that it could be used anywhere that Staff could be used.
Saul
On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 10:25 PM Saul Tobin <[email protected]>
wrote:
> The easiest way to get the staff not to appear would be to put NullVoice
> inside a Staff or similar context that you want to appear.
>
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 8:19 PM Walt North <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, that took care of the alignment.
>>
>> However now I see an empty staff. Is it expected I would then have to
>> remove all empty staves? I tried that but may not have it right
>>
>>
>> \version "2.24.2"
>>
>> \language "english"
>>
>> \layout {
>> indent = 0
>> \context {
>> \NullVoice
>> \RemoveAllEmptyStaves
>> }
>> }
>>
>> verseLyricsMelody = \relative c' {
>> c4 c c c~ | c c c c |
>> }
>>
>> verseOneLyrics = \lyricmode {
>> one two three four five six seven eight
>> }
>>
>> \new Score {
>> <<
>> \new Voice = "verse" { \break \verseLyricsMelody }
>> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "verse" { \verseOneLyrics }
>> >>
>> <<
>> \new NullVoice = "verseB" { \break \verseLyricsMelody }
>> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "verseB" { \verseOneLyrics }
>>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/20/2024 4:58 PM, Saul Tobin wrote:
>>
>> My understanding is that Devnull is not intended for alignment of lyrics
>> because it does not have the necessary engraver to create the invisible
>> grobs used for alignment. It appears to me in your example that actually
>> the lyrics are just being spaced evenly without alignment to anything.
>> Nullvoice is intended for your use case.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 20, 2024, 6:06 PM Walt North <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Am I missing something? It seems like using devnull to align lyrics to
>>> does pay attention to ties. Ties do seem to be honored when using voice
>>> for alignment.
>>>
>>> Below is a stripped down example with screenshot.
>>>
>>> \version "2.24.2"
>>>
>>> \language "english"
>>>
>>> \layout {
>>> indent = 0
>>> }
>>>
>>> verseLyricsMelody = \relative c' {
>>> c4 c c c~ | c c c c |
>>> }
>>>
>>> verseOneLyrics = \lyricmode {
>>> one two three four five six seven eight
>>> }
>>>
>>> \new Score {
>>> <<
>>> \new Voice = "verse" { \break \verseLyricsMelody }
>>> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "verse" { \verseOneLyrics }
>>> >>
>>> <<
>>> \new Devnull = "verseB" { \break \verseLyricsMelody }
>>> \new Lyrics \lyricsto "verseB" { \verseOneLyrics }
>>> >>
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>>
