I’m able to hide a rest by changing its opacity to 0%, but for some reason this doesn’t affect its dot. Is there a way around this other than separating it into its constituent un-dotted rests?
In general it shouldn’t be necessary to hide rests by changing the opacity. Are you using the start/end voice properties appropriately, and the Edit->Remove Rests command?
Yes. I’m trying to have a recitative/cadenza bar, which isn’t well supported yet. I’m removing rests in the voices that don’t have the recitative, so they can’t see the true duration of the bar.
OK, I hope you don’t mind me asking
One option for things like this is to switch to the open time signature (Shift-M “open”), then hide the time signature and write the cadenza material in an unmetered bar. Then the other parts will just have a one bar multirest.
As for your specific question about opacity of rhythm dots, I don’t think these can currently be made transparent. Your best option is probably to use Force Duration to enter a combination of rests that don’t have dots, then make all the rests transparent.
It is in an open time signature, but it’s a recitative, not a cadenza, so some of the other parts are holding notes. I would like to have a whole note, not a bunch of tied notes of various durations.
I’m aware of the option of separating a rest into its constituent un-dotted rests, but this is more of a workaround than a solution, and certainly not the intended functionality.
So I’m wondering if it’s an oversight, or if I just don’t know how to do it.
It sounds to me like you know all the options that are currently available but maybe someone else knows more than us!