removing non-empty staves

[nothingwavering]

Greetings.

I'm a long-time user of lilypond.  I love it and have used it for my massive 
solo pipe organ transcription of a 30-minute movement of a symphony scored for 
large orchestra, so I feel like I know my way around Lilypond at an 
intermediate level.  I don't really delve deeply into the Scheme underpinnings 
and such, so I wouldn't consider my self a bona fide power user just yet.  

Here's the question.  

I'm familiar with the instruction

        \context {   \Staff \RemoveEmptyStaves }

It completely removes a staff from a system when all it contains is rests or 
spaces.  It doesn't just hide the ledger lines like \stopStaff.  It removes the 
staff and everything in it.

Is there a way to tell Lilypond to stop showing a non-empty staff (that 
contains notes) and reclaim its space (don't leave an invisible staff taking up 
room) after the next line break?  Is there also a way to tell Lilypond to begin 
redisplaying a staff so hidden and everything in it at the next line break?

This would make it a lot easier to spilt a staff in the middle or a slur or a 
tie, for example.

Thanks,

Christopher