cautionary key sig

andyp13 · January 30, 2020, 10:20am

Hi,
How do I hide cautionary key signatures, please.

thanks

dspreadbury · January 30, 2020, 10:21am

You can’t. Use a new flow.

andyp13 · January 30, 2020, 11:40am

Im just doing loads of chord charts etc at the moment… I dont use ‘flows’ I actually dont know what they are…
How would a ‘new flow’ hide cautionary key sigs?
Would I be able to put in a request -

Hide Cautionary Key sigs on/off
Realise Chord text (actually both ways) Add chort text from reading notation and adding notation from chord Text).

andyp13 · January 30, 2020, 11:52am

Just watched a vid on Flows, it would be much easier and quicker just to have a ‘hide/show’ Cautionary key sigs

dan_kreider · January 30, 2020, 1:47pm

This is been begged and pleaded for by users in the past.

An easier solution might be to add a coda (Shift-R, coda) and hide the coda mark. You’ll also want to set the coda indent to 0 (Engraving Options–Repeat Structures).

andyp13 · January 30, 2020, 1:52pm

Thanks for that I’ll have a go, I wonder why this request is being ignored, its a perfectly valid thing to ask for?

dan_kreider · January 30, 2020, 1:53pm

It’s not been ignored. It’s been discussed at great length, with significant and repeated input from the dev team. It’s ultimately their call on this sort of stuff.

You’ll be hard pressed to find a team more responsive to user input. Do I want this function? Yeah. But there are ways to work around it, and plenty of strengths and time-saving in other ways that more than compensate me. YMMV.

Derrek · January 30, 2020, 5:26pm

And Andy, IIRC there are also those who want to know how to place cautionary key or time signatures at the end of flows in preparation for the next flow; so the Team has to juggle many user requests–some contradictory–as it is. I have found that the Team is creative as well as responsive and that patience is more than rewarded.

Viaduct · September 17, 2020, 1:57pm

I presume this is not possible for SE and Elements users since we have no access to the Engrave options.

Tried the split flow trick, but that messed up the bar numbers. Changing the bar numbers messed up playback.

It would be sooo much easier if we could just hide the cautionary?

dan_kreider · September 17, 2020, 2:08pm

Post a blank file here. I’ll make that change to the indent and send it back.

Viaduct · September 17, 2020, 2:23pm

Thanks, that’s very kind.

It’s ok. I can probably download a demo license for pro and make the change.