Staves with no lines (or invisible lines)

[arfo1962]

I’m still moving my first steps in Dorico so I think this is an advanced topic and I didn’t find anything specific: is there a way, like in Sibelius, to create a stave with no lines (invisible lines) so to keep notes aligned and in a certain order and then taking a screenshot (I need this for educational purposes: I would need to have images with main rhythmic figures but not tied to a stave, to insert in a text document…)

Thank you,
Art

[dspreadbury]

No, at the moment there’s no simple, built-in way to create a staff with zero lines. But it can be done by importing a library file that provides this capability. You’ll find it elsewhere on the forum, e.g. in this thread:

Instrument with zero lines (0-line Staff)

In the blog article: It is also the case that you cannot create zero-line staves with the instrument editor at the moment. We know there are several use cases for instruments without staff lines, but in general we believe that these use cases would be better served by dedicated features rather than using zero-line staves as a workaround. I was hoping to use this as a workaround. You’re right that a dedicated feature would be better! But in the absence of that… Anyway, I thought I’d explain …

[arfo1962]

Thank you very much Daniel!
Art

[ObiwanKenobi]

@arfo1962

Thank you very much Daniel!
Art

Please, see this fresh and very exciting post about this point
(answer from Daniel Spreadbury) :

Cut-away scores

With the team of Dorico, I think we gonna have a great feature, much better than Finale or Sibelius can already do !

[arfo1962]

Thank you @ObiwanKenobi, I’ll definitely take a look at it
Art