System barline is shown with "Hide empty staves" (or 'invisible' staves), even if that results in only one (visible) staff and "Barline at start of single staff" is not ticked

• May 11, 2016 - 21:03
Reported version
3.5
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
active
Regression
Yes
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

1. Create new score with two instruments, i.e. Piano + Vocal
2. Enter scores in a following way:
- In first system there are notes only in the first instrument
- In second system there are notes only in the second instrument
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3. Go to Style > General... > Score and check: "Hide empty staves"
4. Select first score in the second voice (= second system) and add lirycs (Ctrl + L)

Result: The first bar (next to the clef) in second system dissapeared.

If the problem is already known, I'm sorry for the double (I checked the issue list, but I found nothing).

Comments

• May 11, 2016 - 21:15

This is correct. The default (in MuseScore and in published music in general) is to only display initial barlines for systems with more than one staff. If you want to force initial barlines to display even for systems containing only one staff (not the norm in published music) then you can do so by enabling Style / General / Barlines / Barline at start of single staff.

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• May 11, 2016 - 21:43
Status (old) by design ⇒ active

So... the bug is quite opposite then :)

5. After adding the lirycs save and reopen the file
6. Export file to PDF

Result: Barline is present even if "Barline at start of single staff" is not checked.

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• Sep 17, 2022 - 15:16
Title Lack of first barline in staff after hiding empty staffs ⇒ System barline shown with hiding empty staves, even if that results on only one staff and "Barline at start of single staff" is not ticked
Severity ⇒ S4 - Minor
Reported version 2.1 ⇒  
Frequency ⇒ Few
Regression ⇒ No
Workaround ⇒ No

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• Sep 17, 2022 - 15:17
Title System barline shown with hiding empty staves, even if that results on only one staff and "Barline at start of single staff" is not ticked ⇒ System barline shown with hiding empty staves, even if that results in only one visble staff and "Barline at start of single staff" is not ticked

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• Sep 17, 2022 - 15:23
Title System barline shown with hiding empty staves, even if that results in only one visble staff and "Barline at start of single staff" is not ticked ⇒ System barline is shown with "Hide empty staves" (or 'invisible' staves), even if that results in only one (visible) staff and "Barline at start of single staff" is not ticked

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