I can’t get it to work. If you can find a way to modify the .pkg, it would work but I can’t find a way to do that
Hiding staff lines is also needed for creating a part that has just the time & key signature, barlines and chord symbols (big chord symbols between the barlines).
@dspreadbury is this being considered for a future release?
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Certainly we would like to have a way to produce these kinds of chord charts more easily, but ideally I think we would create a dedicated feature for it.
Well, I am writing a piece for a singer and handclaps are necessary. It would be nice if the handclaps were just there without a staff line. The hand claps are on beats 2 and 4!. The percussion staff just adds a bit of unnecessary space and ink.
Could you perhaps use a rhythmic cue? Write the hand claps on their own staff, cue that into your voice part, don’t include the hand clap instrument in your layout.
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There are lots of ways to go about doing this. Can you post a pic of what you want? You could do it in another voice with a new notehead set …
… or remove the rests and flip the stems:
It’s really dependent on what the end result is you are trying to achieve.
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That is the most marvelously dumb sample melody I think I’ve ever seen. 
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LOL, I aim to please 
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How about just writing clap on 2 and 4 as staff-attached text (or perhaps a playing technique)? Surely that will be plenty clear to a singer.
Your aim is true, @FredGUnn.
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Note the hand claps on 2nd half of the measure in 6/8. The top staff is optional violin. At this point Soprano and alto are singing in thirds…Also note the hand clap line is invisible.
This could easily be achieved using cues, as @Janus suggested. You could:
- create a player (say, a single-line percussion) that contains only the hand claps (Edit > Remove Rests if you don’t want to see them) EDIT: changing the notepads to Xs, as per @Janus’s example below, looks clearer.
- name the player Clap
- create a new layout that does not include the clap part
- insert cues from the clap part to your vocal staves
Full score:
Score Layout without Clap player shown:
Or you could just say that as a text direction!
@dspreadbury Has this been added to Dorico 5? I can’t find any documentation on it.
Unfortunately not.
Many of us are waiting for a « 0-line staff » to be implemented in Dorico so that we can deal with the input of certain contemporary spellings.
However, I saw a thread about this, and it seems that one of the members has set up a library to fill the gap. I haven’t tried it.