Question on start/end of extra voices

[DanielMuzMurray]

@smn

I still don’t see how to use “Start Voice” except solely to delete rests at the start of a piece

Here is a precious post from Daniel about this:

Starts Voice property rarely works

The specific conditions under which the Starts voice property takes effect are complicated. Without auditing the code or asking the developer who originally implemented it to give me his best recollection of all of the conditions, I can’t tell you for sure. The fundamental complexity is that, in common with some other properties, the Starts voice property does not operate atomically, i.e. it depends on the properties set on other notes or rests in the same voice. This is the main reason why we…

Does this help at all?