Re: Combine staves

[Mats Bengtsson]

Andrew Hawryluk wrote:
> This could be nice occasion to use the \change Staff = "..." command,
> which is explained in the section of keyboard music (where it is
> indidpensible), but it can be used on any named staves in your score.
> You can also change the instrument name manually at this point.
>
> Note that you will need to make sure that the change happens at a line
> break so the score makes sense. I guess you could wait to the end when
> you know where the line breaks are. Does anyone know of a more elegant
> solution?
>   
Well, you can always manually insert a \break where you want
the line break ;-)
> Andrew
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Jonathan Kulp <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > If you leave the second staff empty in spots where the first staff has both
> > voices (by empty I mean having skips or full-measure rests), then I *think*
> > it is hidden by default.
> >     
No it's not! Read about \RemoveEmptyStaffContext in
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Modifying-single-staves#Hiding-staves

(Why "*think*", when you easily can test it in one minute if you have 
LilyPond available?)

   /Mats