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Subject:    Re: \RemoveEmptyStaffContext doesn't remove empty staff
From:       Thomas Ruedas <ruedas () dtm ! ciw ! edu>
Date:       2012-04-27 13:39:18
Message-ID: 4F9AA186.4070904 () dtm ! ciw ! edu
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Hi David,
On 27/4/12 10:34 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> Thomas Ruedas<ruedas@dtm.ciw.edu>  writes:
>> i.e., my main concern here is the situation where you may have more
>> than two staves, which is a much more common situation.
> Why would you be using a PianoStaff for those?
I'm not sure I understand what you are wondering about.
I chose a PianoStaff, because, well, it's a piece for piano :-). Being a 
rather unsophisticated user, I chose it because it would give me the 
correct layout (in particular a staff with a brace instead of a 
bracket), and as I said, it behaved exactly the way I expected in an 
earlier version.
In some piano music, you may have three different levels, as it were, 
e.g. a melodic line in the treble, played by the right hand, a deep bass 
consisting of long notes in the left hand, and in between chords filling 
in the time between the bass notes, also played by the left hand. In 
such a situation, which would likely involve large jumps of the left 
hand that may even reach into the realm of the treble clef, the score is 
easier to read if you distribute the notes played by the left hand on 
two staves and have the line of the right hand in the third (uppermost) 
staff.
Thomas
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