Am Dienstag, 28. Dezember 2010, um 15:46:44 schrieb Frauke Jurgensen: > 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.
Lilypond of course supports this crucial feature for orchestral scores: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Modifying-single- staves.html#Hiding-staves To get examples for such things, it is also always a good idea to search the LSR: http://www.lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ Cheers, Reinhold -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user