Hide empty staves and piano

• Aug 15, 2016 - 00:06

I know there has been a lot of discussion of hide empty staves and piano, but I couldn't find exactly this point.

If you have hide empty staves set including first page, and at the beginning of your score you have a piano part with the upper staff empty but notes in the lower staff, then that lower piano staff has no instrument name, and no abbreviated instrument name subsequently, until there are notes in the upper staff, at which point the instrument name/abbreviations appear.

A work around is to put in the Piano/Pno. as staff text on the displayed but unlabeled lower piano staff and then drag that text to the proper place to the left of the lower staff where the label should be, easy enough, but I'm concerned that this may cause problems in later revisions.

Is there any other way to do it? Ideally, I think, the feature in Musescore should be re-programmed with the logic;

IF hide empty staves = on
AND IF instrument = piano
AND IF upper piano staff empty
AND IF lower piano staff not empty
THEN display instrument name or abbreviation on piano lower staff


Comments

Yes, something like this would be good. I thought there was an existing official feature request for this, but I don't see it. Could you create one (in the issue tracker)?

Further experience shows the problem is greater than described. If you have hide empty staves set, then on any subsequent pages which have a piano part in which there are notes only in the lower stave, the lower stave is printed with no instrument name. In other words, it's not something that only happens at the beginning of a score.

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