From 1fba147e54d801206dbdfeae1ddacc8461567a2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 12:37:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Issue 3668: Let NullVoice have an existence in MIDI

Issue 3457 omitted to introduce the NullVoice context into MIDI.  This
implementation is incomplete (see the TODO in performer-init.ly), but
at least it does not let the context structure go off the deep end in
MIDI.
---
 ly/performer-init.ly | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ly/performer-init.ly b/ly/performer-init.ly
index 0a1ac2d374..1a383607f1 100644
--- a/ly/performer-init.ly
+++ b/ly/performer-init.ly
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
   \name Staff
   \accepts Voice
   \accepts CueVoice
+  \accepts NullVoice
   \defaultchild Voice
 
   \consists "Staff_performer"
@@ -181,6 +182,20 @@
   \name "Devnull"
 }
 
+\context {
+  \type "Performer_Group"
+  \name NullVoice
+  \alias Staff
+  \alias Voice
+  %% needed for melismata
+  %% TODO: at least the tie performer likely does not work without the
+  %% Note_performer, but I don't know how to shut note output off in
+  %% MIDI.
+  \consists "Tie_performer"
+  \consists "Beam_performer"
+  \consists "Slur_performer"
+}
+
 \context {
   \Staff
   \name TabStaff
-- 
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