I’m trying to figure out the best way with my setup to accomplish adding pedal while showing only the left hand. I’m engraving a whole book of music examples for a text book (this is book 3 of a series) in one file, with a separate layout for each unit of the book. Because many examples are either numbered or lettered, I duplicated the player—which consists of piano and zero staff (for rhythm examples)—15 times, naming each player with numbers 1.–10. and a.–f.
I’ve come across a “play and count” example for the left hand of the piano, and it has pedal marks. And when I add the pedal, the empty treble staff shows up. Here is that portion of the manuscript:
I want to avoid adding another player to the layout and use the existing player labeled with the example number (3.). Any suggestion?
Thanks Christian. I’ll try the second option when I get back to my desk. I had tried manual staff visibility, but it showed each player only without showing each staff of the player. I’ll check again. 
Okay, your second option worked. Thanks! I didn’t see that before.
When I try the first option, this is what I get in the list:
@gplumblee
EDIT: I found the problem now: you have two instruments per player, so the Manual Staff Visibility cannot hide single staves from that player, if Allow Instrument Changes is activated in Layout Options.
To be able to use MSV on the Pianos, you need to disable Allow Instrument Changes in Layout Options/Players and see if this works for your workflow (not allowing instrument changes will make possible to hide every staff). I attach a Dorico Project below to show the use of Manual Staff Visibility.
(Or you need a different strategy in your setup, where the Player holds only a Piano, and not the 1-line staff.
If you would like to share your project (an example), I am sure we find a good setup for you.)
Here the result and the Dorico file of my experimenting:
Result:
Dorico file:
numbered player for exercises book.dorico (494.1 KB)
Here below my previous reply, before I discovered the culprit (click on the arrow to expand).
@gplumblee, strange, are you sure that your instruments are Pianos or some instrument with 2 staves (even if renamed)?
I tried and it works nicely:
Post your project (a cut-down example), please, to see what is going on.
Hi Christian. Removing the staff for that flow worked for me, but I am happy to share my file with you, so that you can see how I’ve set things up. I guess I was trying to streamline the number of players, because the numbering can go up to 10 and the lettering can go up to f.
WP653 Piano for Life Bk3.dorico (3.0 MB)
Manuscript for Unit 1:
PFL3, Unit 1.pdf (1.4 MB)
