Trimming lines where the staff is empty at the end of a score

[MRoth1910]

Currently a single-line score can be trimmed, probably most conveniently by using gabcsnippet, inside of a minipage.

This requires a lot of trial and error and what I like to call magic numbers.

In this example from the antiphonal, we have what we call annotations but without an initial which by default isn't replicable, so the score wouldn't stretch across the page. (I know that some people seem to have no issue with using (), but it's not ideal, IMHO.) You can use above-lines text or a rubric in your TeX document before gregorioscore or gabcsnippet to place the necessary text. (And I currently am not a big fan of ALT since it is hard to get right…)

A similar case to this one is the incipit of something like an antiphon (pre-1955 for sure or otherwise for the celebrant who sometimes in my experience hardly sings the more complex chants but needs to intone at least the versicle at the beginning, two antiphons, and the hymn when following 1962, or at least 1962 practice.)

See this forum thread.

Being able to trim away this excess staff is requested. Now, I don't know what to do about final lines in a multiple-line score.

and a few of us did point out that this bucks convention entirely. But hey, I figured that it should be passed on…

[davidweichiang]

The original question from the forum is a duplicate of #1418, which was implemented in #1627.

But your examples seem to be something different? Can you expand on what you would ideally like the gabc/tex to look like?

[TymonZ]

But your examples seem to be something different? Can you expand on what you would ideally like the gabc/tex to look like?

I think I run into the same problem(s) as @MRoth1910. Attached is a score generated using the Source & Summit Editor.

I'm pretty sure the half-cropped neumes at the end of the first three lines can be considered a bug.

While less of an issue, I think the score would also look neater with breaks snapping to the line endings, when being the last character in a line. A gabc/tex equivalent of a justify text alignment.

[rpspringuel]

Those "half-cropped neumes" are custodes (singular "custos") and are both intentional and a common feature of square note notation. They are cues as to the first pitch on the next line. They can be turned off by setting \greseteolcustos{manual} in your TeX file (note, this feature is not available in any online editor that I'm aware of).

[TymonZ]

I see, thank you for your answer!