I’m working on music for choir and sometimes one of the voices has a section solo. Whenever that happens, I want to hide the empty staves from the other voices, but when more than 1 voice is singing, I want the entire choir to be shown.
Thank you for the quick response. It doesn’t answer my quesion though.
I understand how to hide staves. My question is how to ONLY hide them when 1 voice in the choir sings. If 2 or 3 voices are singing, the entire choir should be visible.
Hi @Sybrand_Maertens, adding to the suggestion by @Janus, if I understand correctly you want either one staff (when only one singer sings) or 4 staves (when two or more singers sing, even if some staves have only rests).
You can combine the suggested global Hide empty staves Layout Option with local Manual Staff Visibility (to unhide empty staves where desired):
That does anwser my question, thank you very much.
Maybe I was slightly overestimating the possibilities with Dorico. An easy mistake to make, since there are so many.
The Team reads every post and if your desired functionality is considered something generally useful, it will be eventually taken into consideration, I think. (You can also checkmark the Feature Request tag editing the tile of your topic)
To jump on this bandwagon: I think manually setting staff visibilities in a System/Frame Break is often way too rigid. It totally fixes your layout in place, while actually hiding staves here and there most likely results in a (desirable) re-formatting of the score, which works nicer when not restricted.
Feature Request: a possibility to automatically hide and show entire groups of instruments, so that when, for example, the violas start playing, the entire string section appears. That makes a score way more understandable at first glance, than when you need to read the label first in the left margin. And it avoids ‘baking in’ all system breaks.