in the joined jpg’s empty bars are collapsing when I try to clean up the appearance by deleting the pauses
Claude
Sorry, I don’t mean this to sound negative in any way, but why are you deleting those rests?
fair question.
those bar contain a chord progression, so for me they are not empty,
the S. solution I’m maybe chasing is “hide”.
I didnt find a way to hold those “empy” bars in place
Leave the bar rests where they are, and select them, change their “color” in the properties (opacity 0%)
I don’t know if it has changed since last time I used this workaround : in Print mode, you had to activate “view options” in Annotations.
color bar rests to white works but is still ugly as it cuts out the staff line
Don’t color the bar rests white. Set the opacity (alpha channel) to 0.
indeed !!! (my bad)
thank you all
Two additional questions/suggestions for Daniel:
After one has set the opacitiy of an object to zero, one can’t see the color box in the properties panel any more. See picture:
Perhaps a little frame around the box?
I can change the opacity of an staccato dot to zero (engrave mode), and the properties panel will show this, but the dot remains black and after I select something else, the color property of the dot has vanished again.