I’ve used a very think line with color set to white to cover up the staff lines. But I do not want these to appear in parts because I want consolidated multi-measure rests as usual. Is there some efficient way to achieve it?
Here’s what I’ve tried: in the score, select all horizontal lines. This selects them in all the parts as well. I go to a single part and change the opacity to “0” with properties set to “local”. This brings back the staff lines but leaves the multibar rests broken. Is there a way to get Dorico to ignore the lines when it generates the multibar rests?
Also, is there a way to select not ALL horizontal lines, but all of a specific type of line, i.e. only the custom line I’m using to block out the staves in the score? It seems “select more” works on one staff only. If I select a single instance on each staff, I can select-more for all of those staves, which is not too bad, but I’m wondering if I’m missing some functionality here.
I guess one possibility would be to just copy the flow and use one for the score and the other for parts, but that is not really the Dorician way. Interesting - I’ve never seen this kind of notation before, did you come up with this idea yourself?
I was afraid of that, thanks. I’m not really sure of the approach, to be honest. If I were to do something like this, I would either do it with a single-line staff, using two vertical lines on either side of the of the staff to leave a single line in the middle, or with a full block across all staff lines, but with moderate opacity to reveal the full staff greyed out. My intent is to do something approaching a cutaway score but while still leaving the barlines to help with showing entrances. It’s really just an experiment.
Have you tried using the regular cutaway score for your piece? It might work for you pretty well, especially if the staves are grey instead of completely hidden. (But I don’t know if you can print the score that way.)
Yes. In fact, that’s what I’ve been doing lately, but that hides the barlines as well, and for the kind of music I’m writing I find that the barlines are helpful. Thus, I’m trying to find a good in-between approach.
I’m thinking of giving the player two instruments, the regular one and a second special one used for those empty sections, and letting Dorico do the layout by some instrumentswitchingaroo, but this seems even more complicated…
@Estigy has the right idea. You can add a Treble staff or Bass staff instrument to each player, depending on whether it uses treble or bass clef. In galley view, add the thick white lines and a chord symbol region to the empty bars in the added staff for each player. In page view of the score, hide the instrument change labels. Rename the part layout for each player to remove the added instrument from its name. Then in page view for each part, disable instrument changes and use manual staff visibility to hide the added staff.
Here is an example showing the score in page view with instrument changes disabled:
This is a great workaround, thank you! Although, I wonder if I might just end up duplicating the flow or entire project, one for the score alone and the other for the parts, at least for projects that are already complete. I’ll have to play around with both options to see which feels more efficient in keystrokes, etc. Would be nice to have a feature that allowed for entirely hiding lines on parts only. It seems there might be other uses where this feature could be useful, no?
My workaround has some loose ends. The staff label will be incorrect if all the bars for a player in one system are empty, and there could be troubles with key signatures for transposing instruments. These problems are all solvable, but Estigy might be right when he wrote…
