Ungroup staves/hide extended barlines
My score has a single piano staff, treble clef only. I've removed the lower staff, but the remaining staff still wants to group itself with the instrument below it: the barlines all "span to next staff", and every time I change an instrument the curly bracket joining the staves reappears.
The latter is easy to work around, but I can't find a way to un-extend all the barlines at once that excludes the leftmost barline of each system. Not sure if I just need a fancy selection mode or if there's some way to fix the underlying mismatch, but any help is appreciated.
I've attached a screenshot that illustrates what I want and a minimal score to play around with.
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Comments
For the piano, leave the grand staff alone and use menu item: Format > Style > 'Hide empty staves within systems' to hide the blank bass clef staff.
See: barlines.mscz
EDIT: If you are still entering notes into the score and don't wish to use Format > Style > "Hide empty staves within systems" because you wish to see blank staves for other instruments, do this instead:
Right click the piano bass clef staff and, in Staff/Part Properties, change 'Hide when empty' to 'Always'. This will allow you to append measures for other instruments without those appended (blank) measures being hidden when they form a blank staff.
In reply to For the piano, leave the… by Jm6stringer
That worked, thanks!
In reply to That worked, thanks! by Rose Egbert
Or when you set up the score, set it up with flute and bass guitar. Then use the change instrument routine to change the flute to piano. No bracket or connecting bar lines.
Adding a link to another question that has the exact fix I was looking for, so that all ye who enter here might find it more easily https://musescore.org/en/node/273224#comment-839123