Weird indentation behavior when hiding empty staves
In this score, I have quite a few instruments that I would like hidden when they're not playing, including on the first system. However, for some reason that results in every system on the first page except the first system being indented. Is this a bug, or a setting somewhere that could fix? I've been googling without any luck to find what could be causing this. For what it's worth, this file did start as a Music XML import from Finale 2014.
Worth noting that if you manually hide everything but Male Solo and Piano with the eye icons in the instruments panel, this doesn't happen. But if every instrument is turned on there and set to hide when empty, it does.
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I can see what is happening here. It seems there is "space" reserved to allow the short names to be shown in full length. The first system is showing long names, and it seems to work correct in that scenario.
If you enable the "show page margins", you can visualize this a bit. Check page 4, here Female Solo is against the left page margin, and that space is "reserved" for all places where the short name needs to be shown.
As a workaround, perhaps you can adjust the short name used for the Female Solo?
Seems like a bug to me.
In reply to I can see what is happening… by Henk De Groot
Adding another suggestion, though not really sure if you like that.
You can set the Female Solo and Male Solo systems to never hide. The alignment of the systems is a lot better like this, but obvious you do get a lot of empty measures.
I don't consider this as a bug.
If the Instrument Short Names are abbreviated and forced to use two lines, then a more normal indentation appears. See the attached score (.mscz file), and the image below which shows the page margins.
The specific problem is the stave marked Female Solo, which can be abbreviated in the Instrument Short Name to:
![Instrument_Short_Names_abbreviated.png]( "Instrument_Short_Names_abbreviated.png")
Fem.
Solo