Re: Hiding staves for some bars

[Joe Wilkinson]

    Hi Pete,
    Or are you looking for something you can create using an Ossia Staff
    (Staff/Voices >> Ossia)?
    Create the Ossia Staff, then use Turn on, Turn off at the places you
    want to lose a staff temporarily (because that voice is silent for a
    significant part of the movement).
    An Ossia Staff seems to be Clef and Time-Signature free, but it can
    be turned on and off at will. It defaults to a smaller size but can
    be enlarged under staff properties.
    
    A similar effect can be created on a normal staff using Directives
    >> Typesetter >> (Print) Stop/Start Drawing Notes/Staff
    but it seems to put a Clef at the beginning of a blank line rather
    than omitting it.
    Scruffy example below
    
    with Best wishes
    Joe

On 11/02/2021 12:01, Richard Shann wrote:

> On Wed, 2021-02-10 at 14:35 +0000, silentkeystroke@googlemail.com
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a piece of music where, for example there are only vocals in
> > certain sections. I don't want bars and bars of rests.
> >       
> perhaps:
>
> Command: Hide Empty Staffs on All Systems (Off/On)
> Hides empty staffs on the first and subsequent systems (Off/On). See
> also the command "Hide Empty Staffs (Off/On)" which keeps all staffs
> for the first system.
> Location: Object Menu ▶ Movements ▶ Typesetter
> Internal Name: HideEmptyStaffsAllSystems
>
> Command: Hide Empty Staffs (Off/On)
> Controls whether staffs containing only rests are printed in the
> current movement. All staffs are printed on the first system (line)
> thereafter any staff that has only rests for a entire system is
> dropped. Use this in large scores to fit more systems per page.
> Location: Object Menu ▶ Movements ▶ Typesetter
> Internal Name: HideEmptyStaffs
>
> but you mention "Vocals" is that a red-herring?
>
>
> Richard
>
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