Removing one of a pair of linked staves
I am using MuseScore 2 and have created a score with a pair of linked staves for a single instrument.
Is there any way to removed one of these staves? I only seem to be able to select an individual staff and edit the properties but not delete it. Even selecting the instrument name (which is shared between the two staves) and trying to edit staff properties from the right click menu only opens a dialog for a single staff (the top one).
I am not sure whether this is a shortcoming which needs to be added as a feature request or I am just missing something.
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Do you mean you want to delete it entirely, throughout the score? if so, you do that from the Instruments dialog (found under the Create menu, because it,s also whee you'd add staves). If you mean, you want to suppressthe display of the staff in just one system, there areno controls to do that directly,but theusual way to get that effect is via the Hide Empty Staves option in Style ->Edit General style. That will hide allempty staves. I think the wayit works has chaned some betwween the current 1.1 and the experimental builds for 2.0, but in current releases, that option doesn't work for cases whee you have two staves on the same instrument. So instead, I create music using separate instruments for, eg, piano RH and piano LH, in any score where I expect to want to hide the LH staff when empty.
In reply to Do you mean you want to by Marc Sabatella
Thank you ...
for the quick and detailed answer.
I must admit I hadn't even considered the Create menu but I did want to remove the staff from the whole score so that is exactly what I needed. Although the choice of menu seems a little counter intuitive, the dialog it opens is perfectly straight forward.
My original idea was to test the guitar tab functionality at the same time as transcribing in standard notation so the contents of both fields were identical. In the end I decided that it took up too much space and if I need tablature for some reason I should put the two notations in separate files.
Now in 2.0 you can just press "I" to open the "Instrument dialog box" and from there you can add/remove instruments and staves as you want.