Re: Show TacetStaff when StaffGroup empty

2023-11-01 Thread David Kastrup
Jeff Olson writes: > On 11/1/2023 6:37 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> > > Thanks, David. Now I'm really smiling to have learned something new! > Your knowledge is more encyclopedic than Wikipedia. That claim is more of a

Re: Show TacetStaff when StaffGroup empty

2023-11-01 Thread David Kastrup
Jeff Olson writes: > On 11/1/2023 6:37 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> > > Thanks, David. Now I'm really smiling to have learned something new! > Your knowledge is more encyclopedic than Wikipedia. > > I once mail-ordered a

Re: Show TacetStaff when StaffGroup empty

2023-11-01 Thread Jeff Olson
On 11/1/2023 6:37 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Thanks, David. Now I'm really smiling to have learned something new! Your knowledge is more encyclopedic than Wikipedia. I once mail-ordered a fretted u-bass but exchanged

Re: Show TacetStaff when StaffGroup empty

2023-11-01 Thread David Kastrup
Jeff Olson writes: > The only reason I cc'd Harm was that he was one of five listed under > Documentation in http://lilypond.org/authors.html, and in previous > posts he had identified himself as a [fellow] classical guitarist.  So > I imagined he might smile, as I did, at seeing the double bass

Re: Show TacetStaff when StaffGroup empty

2023-11-01 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le mardi 31 octobre 2023 à 21:31 -0600, Jeff Olson a écrit : > > > P.S. What's the best way to alert somebody whenever I see a small nit like > this in the documentation?  I don't have an account on gitlab, nor do I > subscribe to the bugs or developers lists. > The normal way to report a

Re: Show TacetStaff when StaffGroup empty

2023-10-31 Thread Jeff Olson
On 10/31/2023 4:23 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Jean Abou Samra writes: Le mardi 31 octobre 2023 à 20:40 +0100, David Kastrup a écrit : Given that I was way less comfortable with English at the time than I am today, it is possible that I fell into the trap of a false cognate: the French "cordes

Re: Show TacetStaff when StaffGroup empty

2023-10-31 Thread David Kastrup
Jean Abou Samra writes: > Le mardi 31 octobre 2023 à 20:40 +0100, David Kastrup a écrit : > >> > I'm not the OP but that is excellent documentation, save for one word: >> > >> > >> > "In the following example, staves devoted to wind instruments are >> > removed in the second system; however,

Re: Show TacetStaff when StaffGroup empty

2023-10-31 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Hi, Le mardi 31 octobre 2023 à 20:40 +0100, David Kastrup a écrit : > > I'm not the OP but that is excellent documentation, save for one word: > > > > > > "In the following example, staves devoted to wind instruments are > > removed in the second system; however, the double bass is not, > >

Re: Show TacetStaff when StaffGroup empty

2023-10-31 Thread Jeff Olson
On 10/31/2023 1:40 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Nothing to fret about, unless you're in documentation, eh Harm? I know Harm as a pretty good fretted string instrument player. Probably this should just be "strings" which it typically associated with the kind of instruments listed there and has the

Re: Show TacetStaff when StaffGroup empty

2023-10-31 Thread David Kastrup
Jeff Olson writes: > On 10/30/2023 11:27 AM, Michael Werner wrote: >> This is based on >> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/hiding-staves > > I'm not the OP but that is excellent documentation, save for one word: > >"In the following example, staves devoted to wind

Re: Show TacetStaff when StaffGroup empty

2023-10-31 Thread Jeff Olson
On 10/30/2023 11:27 AM, Michael Werner wrote: This is based on http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/hiding-staves I'm not the OP but that is excellent documentation, save for one word: "In the following example, staves devoted to wind instruments are removed in the

Re: Show TacetStaff when StaffGroup empty

2023-10-30 Thread Michael Werner
On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 9:57 AM Pierre-Luc Gauthier < p.luc.gauth...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello there, > > Please let this not be a duplicate. > > Is there a way for the tacet staff to be shown *only* when all the other > staves are empty ? Manual intervention is not a viable option here. > If I

Show TacetStaff when StaffGroup empty

2023-10-30 Thread Pierre-Luc Gauthier
Hello there, Please let this not be a duplicate. Is there a way for the tacet staff to be shown *only* when all the other staves are empty ? Manual intervention is not a viable option here. \version "2.25.10" \language "english" \layout { \context { \StaffGroup \RemoveAllEmptyStaves