Need help with pages
So my piece has more than 30 staves and I wanted to know how to interpret that via page size, since I'm exporting the song as a pdf (all parts as well and full score)
Is there a way to...
A: Split the total staves between two pages?
B: Only show the staves playing?
I already know how to increase page size and that works... well decently I guess.
Comments
A: No
B: use Hide empty staves in Format->Style. You may need to also uncheck the option that will become active below that that starts "Don't hide empty staves..." so page 1 isn't too long.
On more thing you can do along with "Don't hide...". If you don't want to see a certain instrument on page 1 then right click the staff, choose staff/part properties and set the Hide when empty option to Always. This may be a better option to hide only some instruments (like Flute 2, Oboe 2 and some of the auxiliary percussion if they don't have notes on them) this way if there are no Flute notes on page 1, you still have a Flute staff visible.
Finally, rather than increase the page size, decrease the scaling so more staves will fit on the existing page.
In reply to A: No B: use Hide empty… by mike320
thanks. this helps a lot, it all worked.
A) use system- and/or page breaks
B) use "Hide empty staves"
In reply to A) use system- and/or page… by Jojo-Schmitz
thank you, this works!!
In reply to A) use system- and/or page… by Jojo-Schmitz
You say you know about increasing the page size. Do you also know about decreasing the score size with [Format]>[Page settings]>[Stave space]? Reducing the stave space makes everything smaller so that more fits on a page. However, with A4 page size I think trying to fit more than about 25 staves will probably make things too small to read.
In reply to You say you know about… by SteveBlower
that fixed a ton, thank you.
In reply to A) use system- and/or page… by Jojo-Schmitz
one last question, if I were to ocmpletely hide a staff from page view so you could not see it, is that possible?
In reply to one last question, if I were… by Altostar482
Sure, open the instruments dialog (press i) and uncheck Visible for that staff.