-\version "1.7.19"
-\header {
-texidoc = "Hara kiri should not upset fixed distance alignment like in pianostaff. In this example the middle staff is harakiried."
+\version "2.12.0"
+
+\header { texidoc =
+
+ " Hara-kiri staves kill themselves if they are empty. This
+example really contains three staves, but as they progress, empty ones
+are removed: this example has three staves, but some of them
+disappear: note how the 2nd line only has the bar number 2. (That the
+bar number is printed might be considered a bug, however, the scenario
+of all staves disappearing does not happen in practice.)
+
+Any staff brackets and braces are removed, both in the single staff
+and no staff case.
+
+This example was done with a pianostaff, which has fixed distance
+alignment; this should not confuse the mechanism.
+"
+
}
-
-\score { \notes \transpose c c''
- \context PianoStaff <
- \context Staff = up { c c c c \break }
- \context Staff = mid { s1 \break }
- \context Staff = down { c4 c c c \break }
- >
- \paper {
- \translator {
- \RemoveEmptyStaffContext
+\layout {
+ ragged-right= ##t
+ \context {
+ \RemoveEmptyStaffContext
}
- }
}
-%% new-chords-done %%
+\transpose c c''
+\context PianoStaff <<
+ \new Staff { c4 c c c \break s1 \break c4 c c c \break c c c c}
+ \new Staff { d4 d d d s1 s1 s1 }
+ \new Staff { e4 e e e s1 e4 e e e s1 }
+>>
+
+
+