Can I unhide a hidden empty staff in certain systems?
For example in a whole orchestra tutti, let's say the timpani isn't playing, but all other instruments are playing, a good orchestral score should then unhide the timpani staff as long as the tutti goes on, even though it's empty. Same happens to a concerto if all instruments but the solo are playing. Can I realize that in MuseScore?
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Right click->Staff Properties->Never Hide?
No, he said in certain systems. Unhiding it everywhere would change the formatting of the entire movement/score. The need to change the hiding in a particular system, before it has any notes in it, is one that has been expressed many times here.
In reply to No, he said in certain… by [DELETED] 1831606
So add a second Voice note, silent and invisible...which is an old trick often reported.
See also: https://musescore.org/en/node/292555
In reply to So add a second Voice note,… by Shoichi
Hello,
I often do this by adding a text reduced to a single white point between the staff lines and made invisible: This is enough so that the staff is no longer hidden on the page.
In reply to Hello, I often do this by… by Papibois
Yes, it's enough.
See the suggestion: #293293: Improve the staff hiding algorithm to allow custom control and bottom alignment
In reply to Hello, I often do this by… by Papibois
Not sure about the OP, but that's not the problem I'm alluding to. What I mean is that I have a score with many staves, that barely fits on on a page, and there is a part which is "hidden if empty", and I'm on page 37 and want that part to appear so that I can put notes it it. There is no way of unhiding it to put funny texts or invisible notes in it or anything else. You are forced to un-hide it globally, trashing all the score layout, put funny marks in that measure (which is now on a completely different page), and then go back and hide it.
This is a flaw.
In reply to Not sure about the OP, but… by [DELETED] 1831606
There is no way of unhiding it Not to argue (as an end user I try to share the little that comes from my experience, I would not know how to implement the software if I wanted to) but why can't you use the trick? Two pages or 40 doesn't change much. Attach an example (*.mscz file) and someone will know how to help you (you don't seem to need it though).
In reply to There is no way of unhiding… by Shoichi
What does this score illustrate? There is only one system where a staff is hidden. If you globally unhide that staff, only one system will change. I am interested in the case where a staff is hidden almost all the time (because its notes are infrequent) over many pages, and later I decide that I want it to appear somewhere, and have no way to grab it other than to make it visible everywhere, losing my place as the score is wholly reformatted, and put some notes in it in the place I need, then re-hide-except-where-notes it, and hope it comes back to the same place. It would take me a good while to prepare an example. Maybe I will try.
In reply to What does this score… by [DELETED] 1831606
In the rare stave that you don't want to be hidden, use Ctrl+T and add even one dot.
Try it on one of your scores. It should work.
(sorry if I'm unclear but I don't speak English)
In reply to In the rare stave that you… by Shoichi
Here you go. I made this silly orchestral score from a real canon of mine. I'd like to add the flute at measure 40 on page 4. How do I do that without getting 30 pages?
In reply to Here you go. I made this… by [DELETED] 1831606
The first or the second?
Fl1 ;-)
In reply to The first or the second? Fl1… by Shoichi
Yes, I know one can make a mark that keeps it from disappearing once you get your hands on it. That is not the problem. Did you not have to expand it to 18 pages first, where many of the staves were below the page bottom? If I had said "cello", it would not be visible.
In reply to Yes, I know one can make a… by [DELETED] 1831606
Planning first? Scaling? Temporarily change the page size?
I take the software as it is and, if I ever need it, I take advantage of some possibilities.
But, basically, does the workaround (waiting for future implementations) work? Can you get what you want, suffering a little?
In reply to Planning first? Scaling?… by Shoichi
I was addressing the need to suffer -- I understand the notion of cumbersome workaround .... but I think we are on the same page now, pun intended. Anyway, we are here to decide what should be, not workarounds for what is.
In reply to I was addressing the need to… by [DELETED] 1831606
It's still a workaround that I can't do without because I find it so convenient.
Here is an extract on some very full pages
Aïda148-174 Extrait.mscz
In reply to I was addressing the need to… by [DELETED] 1831606
@BSG, add your voice to the feature request. For my few needs and for my purposes I can join the party of cumbersome workaround ;-)
In reply to Not sure about the OP, but… by [DELETED] 1831606
I use one of two methods to unhide a staff that has been hidden a while
Select the visible staff closest to it and consult the instrument list to see how many times I need to press alt+arrow to move to that staff
Switch to continuous view, put the invisible silent note into voice 2 (usually I already copied it, now I paste it) and return to page view. This can be an adventure if you have, say, 50 staves and want to unhide the 38th staff, because you cannot easily make the current selection come into view if it's not on the screen.
I do wish there were a better way.
Thanks to all of you!
In reply to Thanks to all of you! by Howard-C
I know this is old but all staffs are visible in the continuous view mode. Change to that mode and check out the staff properties. There you can make them visible or not.