Hide Staff Lines

[Jason_Simmons]

Is there a way to hide the staff lines in Dorico 5? I am trying to make some rhythm cards for my elementary students and I need to show rhythm but not staves.

[jesele]

Dorico 6 has cutaways. For Dorico 5, search for 0-line staff.

Jesper

Instrument with zero lines (0-line Staff)

Yeah, there was a change in how Dorico handles these between D4 and D5. I think I figured it out and detailed it in this post. Here’s a new doricolib file for D5 that creates both a 0-Line and 1-Line instrument in the Custom category. Additionally, it creates a Clef for the 1-Line Staff that defines the line to be middle C for ease of input. The image appears wrong in the right panel, but is correct in the score. If you delete that old doricolib file and use this one instead, it should work cor…

[asherber]

You can use the 0-line staff in D6 as well. Since cutaways hide the notes as well as the staves, I think the 0-line staff is probably the more appropriate solution.

Alternatively, it might be easier to download the MusGlyphs font and then make the flash cards in a word processor.

[jesele]

@asherber

Since cutaways hide the notes as well as the staves

Thanks @asherber, didn’t think that one through enough.

Jesper

[Christian_R]

Hi @Jason_Simmons, following the advices above:

To install the 0-line staff and 1-line staff instrument additions by @FredGUnn just unzip the file and add it in your DefaultLibraryAddtions folder.

On Windows, this will be found at
Users\yournamehere\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\Dorico 6\DefaultLibraryAdditions

On MacOS at
Users/yournamehere/Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Dorico 6/DefaultLibraryAdditions

If you don’t already have that folder, you can create it:

And here further resources:

Flash Cards & Worksheets – Dorico

[Jason_Simmons]

Thank you so much that flash card and worksheet helps with most of the stuff I need.