Prefatory staves

[Jeremy_Aknai]

I note some while ago Daniel provided a little tutorial for making prefatory staves:

Prefatory staves / incipit bars in Dorico

No, there’s been no change in this regard. It can be done, but it’s a bit fiddly – I’ve just spent the last 10 minutes or so doing the attached. The basic steps are: • Create a separate flow for the incipit • Exclude the incipit flow from the master page main frame chain (the ‘Flows’ filter drop-down for the MA frame chain in the master page editor) • Use the Note Spacing tool to indent the first system of the “real” flow to make room for the incipit • Use a system break at the start of that…

The thing I’m stuck on is how to omit the systemic barline when two or more staves in a system require prefatories. I can only think to somehow white out the unwanted barline with a graphic, or have I missed a trick?

Being able to omit systemic barlines would be very useful in a number of scenarios.

[PjotrB]

Can you show an example of what you mean? If you want to omit the barline at the right end of the incipit, that’s already possible:

@dspreadbury

• Consider setting the auto final barline of the incipit to e.g. ‘No barline’ in Notation Options.

BTW: Unfortunately, Daniel’s example file in the linked post cannot be found anymore.

[Jeremy_Aknai]

I mean the systemic (or ‘initial’) barline at the start of the prefatory staves. I know it’s possible to delete the barline at the end on a per-flow basis.

[dspreadbury]

There is at present no way of omitting the systemic barline when there is more than one staff in the system, I’m afraid.

[Derrek]

If you ever decide to make this possible, it would be a godsend for notating rounds with measure-lines aligned.