I am using the 0-line staff instrument for a Narrator part.
In the source that player shows no full bar rests and I would like to replicate it.
Is there a general way to do this, perhaps a property in the instrument definition, or should I select all of them and change opacity to 0% (or size to 1% etc …)?
Thanks!
I would just change the scale. You could also create a separate Layout specifically for that flow and hide bar rests via Layout Options.
Yes, but that would apply to all instruments.
I need something like “this instrument shows no bar rests”.
Apologies: I thought you meant it was just for a Layout with one player and several flows.
Could you not, as a final step in your overall note input process, simply select the whole narrator stave and remove rests?
You could put a note at the beginning of the 0-line staff, hide its stem and notehead, suppress its playback and activate ends voice immediately.
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In theory yes, but I believe the rests need to be there when the Narrator is not speaking.
I have done something like that in the bars that need to hide rests and, most of all, fermata: quarter note at start, deactivate playback, hide stem, notehead, and then remove rests for those bars.
Ah! You did not include that in the brief!
That’s because I am not yet sure whether that is the requirement! 