On 28 December 2010 15:46, Frauke Jurgensen <frauk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all! > > I have a large orchestral score, in which individual instruments at > times are resting for many pages. I would like these instruments to > disappear (those staves not to be shown) on systems where they have > nothing but rests. > > The only way I can think of to do this, is to create a new staff at > the point where the instrument appears, and to do so each time. > > Is there a less cumbersome way of doing this?
Hi! Yes there is! See Notation Reference manual: NR 1.6.2 Modifying single staves > Hiding staves version 2.12: \layout { \context { \RemoveEmptyStaffContext } } http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/modifying-single-staves.html#hiding-staves version 2.13: \layout { \context { \Staff \RemoveEmptyStaves } } http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Modifying-single-staves#Hiding-staves Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user