Re: print bass staff not always

[Valentin Villenave]

On 1/21/19, Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> wrote:
> Not sure how to do it with PianoStaff.

That’s because of the Keep_alive_together engraver. Your layout block
should look like:

\layout {
    \context {
      \PianoStaff
      \RemoveEmptyStaves
      \remove "Keep_alive_together_engraver"
      \override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-first = ##t
    }
}

That being said, I have never seen a piano part where only one of the
hands is printed when the other doesn’t play. (Vibraphone and marimba
parts, maybe.) That’s why we added this feature in the first place.

Cheers,
V.