Is there really no easy way to do attaccas?

Multiple movements, one flow per movement, attacca between movements. So the last measure of each flow needs a time/key change. After searching for a while, it seems there is no easy way to do this.

The common suggestion is to add an extra measure with the time/key change, and then hide the rest in that measure. That works easily for many cases: when all the rests are hidden, the measure width automatically adjusts, and everything looks fine.

But the problem is that doesn’t work in a condensing score: the condensed parts end up with a rest that cannot be hidden. Maybe I’m missing a way to hide it? Otherwise this approach doesn’t really work at all.

So alternately I can put notes into the extra bar in each part, hide the notes, and manually adjust the measure width of every layout. That is a quite manually intensive; I fear in the end that’s what I’ll have to do, but I’m looking for a way to avoid that.

[I also don’t care about playback, but this messes up playback. Even if I were to suppress playback of the notes, I’d end up with a gap for the extra measure.]

In one thread, I saw the suggestion to just make everything one flow and insert text frames to notate movement titles on the pages where the movements change. Again quite manually intensive to do that in all the parts, and then I have lots of overrides in the parts (maybe I don’t need to be concerned about that; just in the back of my mind I remember reading some cautions about that).

Did I miss some other suggestion?

No, you’re not missing anything else at the moment. Better support for attacca has been requested before and is on our backlog for future versions.

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I usually set the default silence-between-flows setting to zero seconds when I want movements to to join without a gap. I can always add short flows of silence between other movements in a playback only layout to create gaps for separated movements. Those silent flows never have to appear in printed layouts.

Yes, but if I have to insert an empty measure to get the key signature/time change to display at the end of the previous flow, then I get the gap from the empty measure. I guess if I were really concerned about it I could put in a hidden tempo change and make it really fast, but still…

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Yes, that’s the trick.

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