Using @DanKreider’s brilliant Cantorum font, I am doing musical selections incorporating neumes and piano. I need to be able to have the line at the start of each system go away for the neumes, but remain for the piano.
Feature request (not for Dorico 5.0, I know)
The ability to natively use an invisible barline without having to do the weird dashed-line workaround.
I know this has been talked about for years, and I know the Dorico crew has had a very good reason for not yet being able to implement same. Thanks, all!
You could try another trick: by using the Tick barline, then adjusting its length in the Properties to be -0,5 spaces on both the top and the bottom. Would that give you what you need?
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Curious to know what these are used for. Is independent time signatures for piano and neumes not sufficient?
One use I’ve had for them recently is to avoid messing up the bar numbering, which causes all kinds of edge cases when you have independent time signatures. Also, in cases where the entire system is in open time, they can give you a convenient note spacing handle at the start or end of a system where there otherwise might be none.
MS has neumes in top stave with piano below. Neumes in MS do not have barlines at the start of each system, allowing clefs to be put at the start of each system per normal.