Hiding staves on a specific flow

[zecastello]

Hi, everyone!
I’m working on a workbook for saxophone and in a specific flow I have only the chord progression of a song and the staves. I need to hide those staves to have only the chords on the page. How can I do that?

[Lillie_Harris]

Each system in Dorico needs to have a minimum of a single stave; you can’t have a flow that doesn’t show any stave at all, I’m afraid.

What you could do perhaps is add a single-line percussion instrument and only include that in this flow?

Or, if you’re only showing the chord symbols themselves rather than also chord diagrams, you could insert a blank page and write in the chords using a text frame.

[TonH]

Maybe @FredGUnn ‘s 0-line staff can be used?

(Haven’t tried it myself)

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…