hiding a populated ossia staff
I have made good progress in learning how to create an ossia staff for an instrument in which to write down proposed Baroque division "improvisations" for a movement. I think I understand the various options for hiding empty staves and measures to create a small cutaway.
I would like to print out a version of the score where all ossia staves are hidden, even when they are not empty since this gives a much more compact layout when playing from the score as written. I have so far tried looking in the staff properties, instrument view, and parts creation dialogs.
EDIT: to me the most obvious place would have been a visibility checkbox on the individual staves in the "Instruments" dialog.
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If for the ossia you have used other Instruments try using https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/parts
In reply to If for the ossia you have… by Shoichi
Thank you Soichi. No, I am following the instructions in the Musescore howto page where the ossia is a second staff on the same instrument. As you imply, parts can only be generated for the full instrument, not its individual staves.
In reply to Thank you Soichi. No, I am… by esplumer
That How To was written for MuseScore 2, before the "Cutaway" option existed. It is probably better now to create a separate "ossia" instrument and tick the Cutaway box in the stave properties. Having it as a separate instrument allows you to isolate it (or not) when creating a part.
In reply to That How To was written for… by SteveBlower
Steve, Thankyou. This is an important detail I had not caught. So. what is the easiest way to turn the extra staff into a separate instrument? Copy and Paste of measures is what comes to my mind.
In reply to Steve, Thankyou. This is an… by esplumer
Copy and paste is what would come to my mind also. Or just re-enter the notes where needed.
In reply to Copy and paste is what would… by SteveBlower
Great, thanks everyone
In reply to That How To was written for… by SteveBlower
OK, one additional detail. Now that I have 2 "instruments", I don't seem to be able to hide the instrument name which leads each staff. The instrument and its cutaway are obviously differentiated without this label. Is there and advanced formatting option somewhere I can use?
EDIT: OK, never mind. Setting the instrument "short name" to an empty string recovers all of the wasted space at the beginning of the staves.
In reply to OK, one additional detail… by esplumer
Not very advanced... you can edit the long and short instrument names in the stave properties to read whatever you like, or have them blank if preferred.
My workaround right now is to temporarily remove the ossia staff from the score, print to a PDF, then pray that I don't accidently hit "save" before closing the file.
In reply to My workaround right now is… by esplumer
Good.
Save elsewhere with another name eg. *Bis.mscz, you can try a second Instrument and hide it.