Hiding staves with rests only (for some/all voices) - Revision history

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Replace version="2.24.0" with version="2.24" now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series

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	If you have some voices where you still want to display all (even empty) staves, you need to set the <code>remove-empty</code> property of the <code>VerticalAxisGroup </code>to <code>#t</code> for that one staff only. You can do this in the <code>\with</code> section of the staff (in this example, the alto staff will never erase empty lines, while the soprano staff will).		If you have some voices where you still want to display all (even empty) staves, you need to set the <code>remove-empty</code> property of the <code>VerticalAxisGroup </code>to <code>#t</code> for that one staff only. You can do this in the <code>\with</code> section of the staff (in this example, the alto staff will never erase empty lines, while the soprano staff will).

	<lilypond version="2.24.0" full>		<lilypond version="2.24" full>
	%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=307		%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=307

Jean Abou Samra: Import snippet from LSR

2025-10-26T22:39:16Z

Import snippet from LSR

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If you have a choir score, or an orchestral score, where some voices are quiet for a long time, you might want to hide staves containing nothing (or only multi-measure rests). By default, LilyPond shows all staves, even if they only contain rests. To change this into what is sometimes called a "French Score" style, simply add the <code>\RemoveEmptyStaffContext</code> variable, in a <code>\context</code> block, to your <code>\layout</code>.

The first system would still show all staves for all voices. To force this setting to also apply to the first system of a score, set <code>remove-first</code> of <code>VerticalAxisGroup</code> to <code>#t</code>.

If only one staff is displayed, the choir or the <code>StaffGroup</code> bracket would also be hidden, so you will probably need to set <code>collapse-height</code> of <code>SystemStartBracket</code> to value 1 (or anything smaller than 5).

If you have some voices where you still want to display all (even empty) staves, you need to set the <code>remove-empty</code> property of the <code>VerticalAxisGroup </code>to <code>#t</code> for that one staff only. You can do this in the <code>\with</code> section of the staff (in this example, the alto staff will never erase empty lines, while the soprano staff will).

<lilypond version="2.24.0" full>
%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=307

%here starts the snippet:

sop = \relative c'' {
R1*2 |\break
c4 c c c | R1 |\break
R1*2 | \break
R1*2 |\break
c4 c c c | R1 \bar"|."
}

alt = \relative c'' {
g4 g g g | R1 | \break |
R1*2 | \break
R1*2 | \break
g4 g g g | R1 | \break |
g4 g g g | R1 \bar"|."
}

\layout {
\context {
% add the RemoveEmptyStaffContext that erases rest-only staves
\Staff \RemoveEmptyStaves
}
\context {
\Score
% Remove all-rest staves also in the first system
\override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-first = ##t
% If only one non-empty staff in a system exists, still print the starting bar
\override SystemStartBar.collapse-height = #1
}
\context {
\ChoirStaff
% If only one non-empty staff in a system exists, still print the bracket
\override SystemStartBracket.collapse-height = #1
\override SystemStartBar.collapse-height = #1
}
}

\score{
\context ChoirStaff <<
\context Staff=soprano <<
\sop
\set Staff.shortInstrumentName = "S"
>>
% never remove empty staves from the alto staff:
\context Staff=alto \with { \override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-empty = ##f }
<<
\alt
\set Staff.shortInstrumentName = "A"
>>
>>
}

\paper { tagline = ##f }
</lilypond>

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