Re: Mystery empty staves appear on score

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno lun 7 nov 2016 alle 12:03, mclaren <address@hidden> 
ha scritto:
> The Lilypond documentation is poorly organized and extremely 
> incomplete. For
> exmaple, I was only only able to find out about tie direction control 
> by
> glancing at an unrelated list of tweaks. Tie direction control \tieUp 
> and
> \tieDown should be featured prominently in the Lilypond Learning 
> Manual in
> the section on ties.

Before jumping to that wrong conclusion I suggest that you check if 
you've done your work.
I guess that you've not understood how manuals are organized and how to 
search in them, because it took me 10 seconds to find what you were 
looking for in this thread.

My suggestions:

1. The most complete manual is the Notation Reference, the place where 
you should expect to find all the information needed to produce the 
notation. The Learning Manual is only a gentle introduction to 
LilyPond; it's not supposed to contain all the information.

2. Start your search from the manual index:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/lilypond-index.html

If you search R and "rests" you'll get here:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/writing-rests.html#rests

Scroll down the end of the chapter and you find:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Known issues and warnings

There is no fundamental limit to rest durations (both in terms of 
longest and shortest), but the number of glyphs is limited: there are 
rests from 128th to maxima (8× whole).

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Pretty easy.
Same for \tieUp and \tieDown.

I've read lots of manuals and documentation and I've not found anything 
better than LilyPond's documentation. Other people in this list 
expressed the same opinion in the past.

Cheers
Federico (LilyPond user since 8 years)