Re: Hiding staff without hiding bar lines

[Keith OHara]

Federico Bruni <fedelogy <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Il 30/08/2012 03:58, Michael Rivers ha scritto:
> >
> > I've figured out how to hide clefs, time signatures, bar lines and the
> > entire staff. My problem is that \stopStaff seems to also hide all bar
> > lines. Often, this is what I want, but other times I need the bar lines to
> > be visible. I

> I wouldn't expect that removing the staff lines only removes also the 
> bar lines:
> 

The bar line is drawn tall enough to span the staff lines, so we don't want
to make zero staff lines, but rather make them transparent in this case.

\relative c' { 
  f4 g a b
  \stopStaff
  \override Staff.StaffSymbol #'transparent = ##t
  \startStaff
  f4 g a b }