Cutaway/casting ? Choral - liturgy - how to

Hi,
how can I cut away the excessive system in the creed?
The file includes 9 flows on 2 pages, notated in a piano score.
The third flow - (the Creed ) I want to get rid of the lower system
How to?
And how not to affect the other flows
yours
B

Højmesse i Gladsaxe-RW.dorico (1.9 MB)

First of all, I would use either a Choir Reduction instrument, or just a Soprano and Bass as separate staves, bracketed together. This will avoid the barlines between the staves, which is not good in choral music.

Secondly, I would recommend looking at using Codas to indent systems and Cutaways to hide bars. Also use the Staff Visiblity options in Layout Options to hide unused staves.
Look at this example of similar liturgical music:

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Dear Benwiggy,
I’ve used you good advise.
Changed the instrument (one of the issues is that it’s an old finale file ~ xml)
The coda indent option is above my level of understanding currently, I‘ve to read the manual to understand the concept (indenting using Coda)
Question: Can one flow have another rastral size than the others? or rather can one flow have another size?

You can change the staff size at any point using a System or Frame Break – there’s a setting in the Properties panel.

You can also change the staff size using right click > Staff Size. I’ve no idea if that is per Flow or per Layout. Try it and see!

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Dear Ben,
I recreated your file as close as I could get.
2 questions:
1.How do I get the bass (Priest system) to be at the top of the page alligned with sopranos
2. How do one indent the second Priest system to left

using coda to indent systems.dorico (1.8 MB)

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I cheated by using the Soprano part! :grinning_face: There’s a clef change.

Just add some bars, and let Cutaway do the rest!

using coda to indent systems.dorico (1.8 MB)

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Last, I promise :slight_smile:
I’ve added the bracket via Engrave mode Bracketing.
But it only appears at bar 5 and 6 (my file)
In yours it also at the top second bar choir entry

Remove the Bracket change signpost. Set Layout Options to put a bracket round everything.

And you’re done.

Dear Ben,
I promised, but…. :slight_smile:

All is done and look like it should
Only trosbekendelsen -(the creed) - just before 3.salme - misses the last (a)-men
it’s written in the file - Galley view- but I cant get it to show int the music frame
How to?

Højmesse i Gladsaxe-RW-181125.dorico (2.4 MB)

You have a System Break on the last bar!

I had to enlarge the Music Frame to show it.

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