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Subject:    Re: making staves full of rests disappear in a full score
From:       Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold () kainhofer ! com>
Date:       2010-12-28 21:10:30
Message-ID: 201012282210.30434.reinhold () kainhofer ! com
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Am Dienstag, 28. Dezember 2010, um 15:46:44 schrieb Frauke Jurgensen:
> Hello all!
> 
> I have a large orchestral score, in which individual instruments at
> times are resting for many pages. I would like these instruments to
> disappear (those staves not to be shown) on systems where they have
> nothing but rests.
> 
> The only way I can think of to do this, is to create a new staff at
> the point where the instrument appears, and to do so each time.

Lilypond of course supports this crucial feature for orchestral scores:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Modifying-single-
staves.html#Hiding-staves

To get examples for such things, it is also always a good idea to search the 
LSR:
http://www.lsr.dsi.unimi.it/

Cheers,
Reinhold

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