Shrinking invisible measures
I'm typesetting a chamber piece of mine that has a part for a single percussionist who plays different instruments (glock, xylo, triangle, bass drum, tambourine, etc.) I know that you have to enter each of those instruments separately at the beginning of the piece (or use "Create Instrument") and then select the individual measures as invisible when you don't want them to appear. However, this still leaves a huge amount of blank space between the space where the instruments are hidden. Is there a way to shrink the invisible measures in the systems where they don't appear. I tried doing this with the spacer tool, but couldn't. Thanks in advance.
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Don't mark staves invisible - just use the Hide Empty staves feature under Style->Edit General Style. Or, define a drumset for the desired combination of instruments and enter all the parts on a single staff.
In reply to Don't mark staves invisible - by Marc Sabatella
Thanks, Marc. I'll try that.
2 questions:
1) Is there anyway to do that so it doesn't hide all the empty measures?
2) That would still require, in addition to the drumset staff for the unpitched percussion, separate line for the mallets, wouldn't it?
In reply to Thanks, Marc. I'll try by ejbranch1
1) hide empty staves does as it says - it hides entire staves, not individual measures. It will hide any staff that if completely empty for the extent of that particular system (line) of music. If you'd rather show some particular staff even though it is empty, put an invisible note on it.
2) yes, pitched percussion would need a separate staff