+1 for Show/Hide
If it’s been added already, please tell me where, because I can’t find it.
And it hurts the UX of the product and annoys customers. The only way people care about is the most simple one.
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Tell us what you’re trying to achieve, and we’ll tell you whether and how to do it (which may be hiding, or not).
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I’m trying to do a set of about 200 independent short exercises in different keys. Using a different flow for each exercise leads my computer to work excessively slowly and I can’t go past around 80 flows.
Rehearsal numbers for each exercise would have worked great! But it can’t work because I can’t hide cautionary key signature.
I wrote everything on Dorico. Got annoyed at the fact that I can’t hide cautionary key signatures because I thought it is impossible not to have the ability to do that since I wrongly assumed it was a quite common need (and it seems to be as I’ve read here).
So I exported my work and finished it on MuseScore because when I get in touch with its community, there are more people helping than people explaining how wrong it is to need to hide courtesy key signature. As opposed to Dorico where it’s a deliberate decision to not have this function because “there are in most cases other ways you could handle needing to hide something”. It is quite annoying considering the price we have paid for the application.
Dorico is by far the single best program for “most cases”. And if you’re doing something that falls aside of that, it can fail miserably, and it seems it’s a deliberate decision to keep it that way.
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Some folks use Codas to start a new exercise and hide the Coda markings and (if necessary) change the default Coda indent.
Pffft. I know you’re annoyed at the moment, but I don’t see anybody here telling you it’s wrong to hide cautionaries. Quite the opposite. When [if] this feature happens, the forum will probably riot for joy.
Derrek’s advice is the way, and that’s what most of us do to get around it. Works fine. I published a sight-reading book using this method.
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What’s your book Dan?
I should have actually called it a sight-reading book (edited). It’s here.
I used a ton of hidden codas for the examples.
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As well as the Local colour/opacity property, I set the Scale factor to 1 in the score. So any (say) vertical lines I’ve used in the parts not only vanish in the score but also no longer influence the spacing.