Hello. I am working on an unusual score. It’s a post-tonal graph. It has one player with 6 staves and one 19/1:1/2 measure that crosses over two systems. Some of the staves on the second system are not showing, but I would like them to show. I have hide empty staves set to never in the staff visibility. I also have the player excluded from hide empty staves. I wonder if the staves are hiding because I have only 1 measure over two systems. What do you think?
Hi @Dissonance7, sorry I cannot visualise what you describe. It would be helpful to see a screenshot or even better would be if you could upload the Dorico project itself, to analyse what is happening.
If you are using several instruments for the same player to have your 6 staves, do you have Instrument Changes deactivated in Layout Options/Player?
But again, if we could see the Dorico File itself it would be much clearer which situation you have.
Thank you for the response. I do not have instrument changes deactivated in the layout options. I was able to get the empty measure to show by putting in some hidden notes.
So this means that you have Instrument changes activated: this will hide any staff/instrument of that player that doesn’t have any item/s. Your workaround seems to confirm this.
So: try to delete the added hidden notes, and deactivate Instrument changes. Does it solve it?
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Yes, that fixed it. It wasn’t obvious to me that that’s the reason. Thanks!
Glad to help, @Dissonance7.
On the same score, this symbol appeared on my stem. I’m not sure what it is or how it got there. How can I remove it? When I click on it, one of the notes gets selected.
It appears that you might be working in open meter (no time signature) and that symbol looks very much like it is a rest. Try selecting it and doing Edit > Remove Rests. To select it without selecting any adjacent notes, you will probably need to zoom in quite a lot.
@Dissonance7 adding to the suggestion by @StevenJones01:
Remove rests works also with notes selected: only the rests that are in the selection will be removed, the notes remain untouched 
And to select, otherwise, only one item of a group of nearby/overlapping items, there is a neat shortcut: keeping Shift+Option(Alt) pressed, while clicking with the mouse: every click cycles thought the single items
Just ran into this situation. Good timing! Thx!
I was able to use shift+alt to select it without selecting the note, then I deleted it. Thanks!