Frenched score problem

[Michael Gerdau]

Hi lilyponders!




As documented this is nicely done when I add a
      \RemoveAllEmptyStaves
to the Staff context.





In the attached example I could kind of solve the problem by using
      \RemoveEmptyStaves
instead, but that doesn't help in the middle of the piece.

Has someone a solution to this problem?
I can't imagine I'm the first to come across it.

Kind regards,
Michael
--
 Michael Gerdau       email: m...@qata.de
 GPG-keys available on request or at public keyserver

I have a problem with a frenched score. From a larger piece I'm creating an excerpt for the choir and that shall be "frenched", aka voices that have nothing to do are removed while they are silent. However for the Choir excerpt there sometimes are longer passages without any choir participation and those passages are then just empty (see also the attached example). What I would want for such situations is at least a single empty Staff such that the timeline is there.

FrenchedScore-Problem.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

\version "2.25.12"

global = {
  \key fis \minor
  \numericTimeSignature
  \time 3/4
  \tempo "Andante"
  \compressEmptyMeasures
}

soprano = \relative c'' {
  \global
  R1*3/4*6 |
  \tempo "Rall."
  R1*3/4*2
  \mark \default
  \tempo "Andantino"
  R1*3/4 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4*2 |
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4 |
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4 |
  \mark \default
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4*3 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4 |
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4 |
  \mark \default
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |
}

alto = \relative c' {
  \global
  R1*3/4*6 |
  \tempo "Rall."
  R1*3/4*2
  \mark \default
  \tempo "Andantino"
  R1*3/4 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4*2 |
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4 |
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4 |
  \mark \default
  \time 3/4 \new CueVoice { cis8[(\p^"Cors" b] cis4. b8 | cis8[ e] cis4 b) | 
e4( dis8[ e] fis4 |
  \time 2/4 dis8[ cis] e4 |
  \time 3/4 dis8[ cis] b[ cis] cis[ e] |
  \time 2/4 cis4 b) } |
  \mark \default
  \time 3/4 r8 fis'8\p e[( fis]) fis4 |
}

tenor = \relative e' {
  \global
  R1*3/4*6 |
  \tempo "Rall."
  R1*3/4*2
  \mark \default
  \tempo "Andantino"
  R1*3/4 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4*2 |
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4 |
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4 |
  \mark \default
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4*3 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4 |
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4 |
  \mark \default
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |
}

bass = \relative c' {
  \global
  R1*3/4*6 |
  \tempo "Rall."
  R1*3/4*2
  \mark \default
  \tempo "Andantino"
  R1*3/4 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4*2 |
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4 |
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4 |
  \mark \default
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4*3 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4 |
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |
  \time 2/4 R1*2/4 |
  \mark \default
  \time 3/4 R1*3/4 |
}

altoVerse = \lyricmode {
  Do -- mi -- ne
}

\score {
  \new ChoirStaff <<
    \new Staff \with {
      instrumentName = "Sopran"
      shortInstrumentName = "S"
    } { \soprano }
    \new Staff \with {
      instrumentName = "Alt"
      shortInstrumentName = "A"
    } { \new Voice = "alto" { \alto } }
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "alto" { \altoVerse }
    \new Staff \with {
      instrumentName = "Tenor"
      shortInstrumentName = "T"
    } { \clef "treble_8" \tenor }
    \new Staff \with {
      instrumentName = "Bass"
      shortInstrumentName = "B"
    } { \clef bass \bass }
  >>
  \layout {
    \context {
      \Staff
      %\RemoveEmptyStaves
      \RemoveAllEmptyStaves
    }
    \context {
      \Lyrics
      \override LyricHyphen.minimum-distance = #1.0
      \override LyricSpace.minimum-distance = #1.0
    }
  }
}