Choosing the instruments shown on each page
I feel that there should be more flexibility in formatting big ensemble scores. This includes the point I want to talk about here, which is being able to choose which staves to show on each page. An outline of how it could work:
- Non-empty staves will appear by default;
- When "hide empty staves" is turned on, you will have the option of making selected empty staves reappear on a particular page.
This stems from the frustration I feel whenever I work with large numbers of staves and want to simplify things more, but when I need to write something for a hidden part, I have to go back to deselect the "hide empty staves" option which is a hindrance.
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Sneak workaround if you pretty much know where the instrument you want to show is.
1. Open staff properties from a still visible staff above/below the staff you wish to make visible
2. Use the up/down arrow buttons on the bottom of the dialog window to move to the currently hidden instrument.
3. Change it's "hide when empty" dropdown setting to
Never
and press Apply.Once done, change back to "Auto".