Best approach for chord symbols in a orchestral sketch / condensed score?
I am writing a orchestral sketch for a piece and I am working with 6 staves in a system. When reviewing my work with others, I will create a PDF of the score and hide the empty staves.
I would like to add chord symbols to the top staff of the visible system so that I can always see the chord progression at a glance while I'm creating my mock.
It seems that I have a few ways of accomplishing this, but neither seems to be a perfect solution:
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Use the Chord Symbol feature (Ctrl+K).
This solution works great at first (because I can turn off the playback), but fails when the staff is otherwise empty (the page view will show a whole staff containing only rests and the chord symbols). If possible it would be great to hide that unused staff. -
Use staff text.
This is essentially the same as the previous option, but there is no need to consider playback. -
Use system text.
This works great in that staves that are unused don't appear in the output PDFs. However, if I need to modify or cut/paste sections, the system text becomes unwieldy since I can't copy/paste the system text along with the staff information (i.e. https://musescore.org/en/node/360006). It's also a pain because if I want to keep my original piano sketch and create a new musescore file, I would have to make a copy and modify the instruments instead of just copy pasting the information into a new file.
Is there another approach that recommended that solves for both issues, or am I just out of luck for now?