It turned out that the issue is related to an independent time signature created in a staff that also contains instrument changes. If there’s an instrument change following the multi-bar rest, key and time signatures present in that bar are not taken into account so that the H-bar gets too long in the part layout.
Without the independent time signature, the H-bar is shortened correctly according to the settings in engraving options:
So, the fix for the issue seems to be the removal of the independent time signature but I only could achieve this by adding another instrument to the player in order to get a “clean” staff and then moving the notes over.
In general, it should be possible to delete a local key signature by selecting it (in Write Mode), and hit delete.
But it’s not clear what your solution actually was. Do you mean this local KS was unnecessary in the first place? Did you define a transposing piccolo (in Ab?) to invoke the display of the key change? Or did you again add a local KS in your new regular piccolo, now miraculously behaving correctly? Can you post your example file?
Thanks for the prompt reply.
In my simple example file it’s indeed possible to delete the local KS with the Delete key. But for some reason it doesn’t work with the project file posted in this thread – or at least I wasn’t able to delete the one at the beginning of the piccolo staff.
Lena, the topic starter of that thread created the local key signature in preceding bars, removed them again at some point but the local KS is obviously still present.
I played around a bit with your example file, and I can confirm the behaviour you describe. Of course, the 4/4 local TS at the beginning of the flute part is redundant, but that’s not the point. If it’s there (locally), the multirest in the part collides with the KS, regardless whether the KS is local or global. So I’d call it a small bug indeed.
