Apologies for the constant and probably stupid questions. I’ve known for some time how to create (staff) text objects that are visible in the parts but not in the score. However apparently this can’t be done in reverse; if I create a system text object and hide it globally, I can’t unhide it locally. (I could potentially hide it locally in every part but there’s a lot of them.) Is there something I’m missing?
The idea is to create text objects like the below which are for the conductor only.
Forgive me but why does it need to be system text if you only want it in the score?
In any case, a “simple” way to hide the text in the parts would be to create a shortcut for Hide/Show Item.
Then:
Hi @Naomi, adding to the suggestion by @DanielMuzMurray , if you absolutely want/need to use system text instead of staff text, you can create a macro to hide that system text from the parts layouts.
Be sure to assign those system texts to the same paragraph style (possibly a custom and unique paragraph style only used for those indications): so you will be able to use the Select More command, to select all the text that use the same paragraph style.
After the text is selected in the full score for example, make sure the properties panel is set to Locally, and run the macro: it will hide all the selected text switching to the next layout (I made 16 switches, if you need more you can run it again). At the end go to the full score layout and unhide the text once for it:
Here the script:
test hide system text in parts.lua (2.4 KB)
And here the usage example (here only with a string quartet, so it will repeat the script on the same layouts, because it has 16 switches):
I think the point of @DanielMuzMurray’s question about why this needs to be system text is that if you only want it in the score, it’s far easier to make it staff text, and then you only need to hide it in the layout for that staff, rather than all layouts.
I added this to my previous post:
Possibly the choice for system text has the advantage that it will always be at the top and visible, no matter how the music changes afterwards (instrument changes score position, or is deleted, or hidden, etc…, which will then not show the staff text anymore or not at the top of staff)
In the case I screenshotted at the beginning of the thread, it was in fact simpler to just create Staff Text items—which yes I had never thought of because it seems counterintuitive, but does make sense if you’re not worried about breaking multirests etc—but I tested this out in a larger and more complex score (with 52 total layouts) where I wanted system text specifically so it would be positioned above everything else/at multiple positions on the page/etc, and it worked perfectly. Thank you.
