Disable display of instrument names in individual parts.
It would be useful if the long and short instrument names could be shown only in the score and not at the start of each system in individual parts. This would follow the most common practice that I see. Currently after creating parts, I have to go through each one and open the Stave Properties dialogue to delete the Long and short instrument names (leaving the score alone of course, as I want the names shown there).
Perhaps there could be tick boxes on the Stave Properties dialogue for [Show instrument name in score] and [Show instrument name in parts].
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That is the default, "Hide instrument name if there is only 1 instrument", and parts by default only do have one instrument
In reply to That is the default, "Don't… by Jojo-Schmitz
Hmmm? How have I changed the default behaviour? Where is this set?
In reply to Hmmm? How have I changed… by SteveBlower
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/layout-and-formatting#style-edit-gene…
In reply to https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you. It is just me being unobservant. That is where I expected the option to be and where I first looked -but not hard enough obviously.
In reply to Thank you. It is just me… by SteveBlower
Still, though, something is wrong if you need to use this option. It should already be set correctly by default for all new scores. Only scores imported from other sources or created in extremely old versions of MuseScore should ever require you to change this setting yourself. So if you are finding you need to do this, it's worth understanding what has gone wrong.
In reply to Still, though, something is… by Marc Sabatella
The style on the template?
I suppose it's possible a score imported from MusicXML or an extremely ancient version of MuseScore might be set to show instrument name on all staves by default even without your having changed it. But indeed, normally, everything should just work, you shoyld have to be messing with this at all, so something unusual is definitely going on with your score. Feel free to attach it so we can understand better what may have happened.
In reply to I suppose it's possible a… by Marc Sabatella
Yeah my old version of MuseScore just doesn't have the option at all to hide the name.
In reply to Yeah my old version of… by Usernameisbadu
As far as I know all versions of MuseScore have this option, the only difference is whether it is set by default or not. Go to Style / General if you have a recent version (2.x - anything from within past three years), I forget where this might be in older versions (1.x). You are looking for 'Hide instrument name if there is only one instrument". Worst case if you still have trouble finding it, just delete the instrument name (select and press delete with any recent version, or right click staff, Staff Properties, edit the long & short names).