Re: Partials and upbeats

[Phil Holmes]

Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden> wrote

> On 22 February 2010 22:05, Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Correct! You can find some discussions on this phenomenon in the mailing
> > list archives. Do you really want the rest symbol produced by R8? I 
> > thought
> > that and ordinary eight note rest (r8) was the standard notation practice
> > for upbeats.

> Yes but r8 does not permit \RemoveEmptyStaffContext and
>  \override VerticalAxisGroup #'remove-first = ##t
> to work,

Exactly.  It must be a bug that you can't hide opening staves where they 
start with an upbeat...

> I had the same issue and I posted on bug-lilypond
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2009-09/msg00095.html
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=849

> Nicolas Sceaux gave an interesting hack in his answer here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2009-10/msg00011.html

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Blimey!  I'll give that a go.

> Hope it helps,
> Xavier

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Phil Holmes