Double and single staff lines on the same chart
I have a chart with double and single staves. I created a chart with two piano parts. One with a treble and bass clef and the other piano with just a treble clef. I typed what I needed to where I needed to and then hid the empty staves. This is fine except it leaves blank spaces where the hidden staves are.
Is there any way around this so I can have a chart without huge blank spaces all over?
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Can you post the score? Normally, hide empty staves does *not* leave holes at all; saving space is the point. Are you really using "hide empty" staves (in style / edit general style), or are you perhaps trying to mark the staves invisible? that's not the same. Or, is it possible you are just seeing the effect of MuseScore spreading out the systems to fill the page? If so, turn up the page fill threshold in style / edit general style / page. Also note hide empty staves doesn't work with ordinary piano parts created as a single instrument with two staves. You need to create the piano part as two seaprate instruments of one staff each.
In reply to Can you post the score? by Marc Sabatella
I did use "hide empty staves." Here's what I have.
In reply to I probably created the score the wrong way. by Splops
Problem here: in e.g. Measure 28-31 you don't have any note, so is hides all staves, this in turn produces an empty line which still uses space
In reply to Problem here: in e.g. Measure by Jojo-Schmitz
What I don't want is the space.
In reply to I want the unused staves hidden. by Splops
I think you misunderstood. The reason space is left for certain systems is that you don't have anything on *any* staff in those systems. That's not normal - you'd never want to do that. Think about if - if MuseScore hid that system entirely, how would someone reading the score even know there were measures there being hidden? Hide empty staves assumes that at least one staff in the system is *not* empty, and indeed, it would be incredibly unusual for that to not be the case.
Of course, you probably aren't thinking you have nothing on any staff in those systems, because one of the staves does contain chord symbols. But I guess that's not good enough - you need some actual notes - including slash marks, or maybe a note set invisible - in order for MuseScore to treat it as not empty. MuseScore should probably not hide staves with chord symbols even if they contain no notes. That's the real problem here.
In reply to I think you misunderstood. by Marc Sabatella
I've attached a scan from the chart I'm copying. What I want to be able to do, if it's possible, is go from a treble and bass clef to a single treble clef as it is in the example. I see I went about it the wrong way in the beginning.
In reply to I'm lost by Splops
MuseScore#s 'hide empty staves' regards a staf empty if it doesn't have notes. If now an entire system is empty, it hides the entire system, but still eats space on one staff
So adding a note, mark it invisible and set note velocite to User and 0 would be a trick to make it work, see attached
In reply to MuseScore#s 'hide empty by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you so much. That's great.
In reply to That's exactly what I was looking for by Splops
Hello, I'm working on a score too and I have the same problem. I tried everything, but it doesn't seem to work. Can someone help me out? Thanks :)
In reply to Hello, I'm working on a score by tamila9
either follow the advice given above or post your score...
In reply to either follow the advice by Jojo-Schmitz
This is the score... _Господь!.mscz
In reply to This is the score... by tamila9
The "Hide Empty Staves" option doesn't work to hide staves within a single instrument - only staves of different instruments. You created your score as a single instrument (piano) with two staves. You need to add a second instrument (Create / Instruments) and copy the contents of your bottom staff to it, then delete the original staff. Then Hide Empty Staves will work as expected.
In reply to The "Hide Empty Staves" by Marc Sabatella
Thanks a lot! I appreciate your help.
I didn't follow the suggestions made to solve this problem but found a simple workaround due to pressures of time: create a single stave and double stave version. Then use the useful stave spacing tool (vertical I beam) to create 'holes' in the single stave version to paste in the double stave portions. Digital copiers are good at hiding patch marks.