disable empty stave cascading on pdf export
When exporting scores for single instrument in MS, it often shortens the empty staves with a number (depending on how many they are), but I'd like to see them as they were in their long version.
I already checked in Style > Score, my "Hide empty staves within the system" is unchecked.
How is this done?
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Comments
Do you mean "measures"? Try ctrl+shift+M.
In reply to Do you mean "measures"? Try… by bobjp
yes, I mean the measures.
Ctrl+shift+M does this on the MS score, yet after I have exported the score (into a pdf), of an instrument that begins with empty measures, the exported pdf gets the shortened notation with the number for the empty measures.
Is there a way to achieve the same effect (ctrl+shift+M) in the pdf export procedure?
In reply to yes, I mean the measures… by traditions
" the same effect (ctrl+shift+M) in the pdf export procedure?"
You mean in the main score? Unless all instruments stop playing at the same time for X measures, the multimeasures rest cannot be displayed.
It's the "Hide empty staves within the system" function, as you've already tried, that will be relevant here.
But it's something else.
In reply to " the same effect (ctrl… by cadiz1
Yes, in the main score (attached).
Which means, if I don't have any other instrument playing (apart from those that have empty measures = v1, v2 and vla), the MS will always combine my empty measures into the short version? Is that right?
In reply to Yes, in the main score … by traditions
"the MS will always combine my empty measures into the short version? Is that right?"
Short version = Parts ? https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/parts
If so, indeed the multimeasure rests will be displayed automatically by default in each part.
In reply to "the MS will always combine… by cadiz1
yes, the shorten version appears always in the Parts (whatever the instrument).
I guess it's a default behavior of MS.
So, I managed to undo the combination in the empty staves of a particular Part (Ctrl+shift+M). Which actually works for me perfectly.
@bobjp and @cadiz - thanks you!