Temporary staves
This is what I would like to achieve (this was done in Lime, old times):
What I've done in musescore to mimick that is to create new voice for Soprano solo and Tenor solo, write the parts, then hide empty scores (even at the start of the piece).
Result:
I don't find it as appealing, I would like the solo staves to start on that measure, not as early as on that system. Not least, I don't want the soloists to stop singing the choir parts before it's time for their line.
Is it possible?
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MuseScore can't do this automatically. So an option for this would be a feature request, not a bug report. I like the way what you describe looks...it makes is very clear that is an entrance at a particular measure, although I can see how the current way might be preferred by others.
One thing, which is already possible: select the measures without notes before, right click->measure properties an deselect visible for this staff.
In reply to One thing, which is already by kuwitt
Yes, but it keeps that Initial barline
In reply to Yes, but it keeps that by Jojo-Schmitz
It does, but partly. There is a Staff propertie "Hide system barline". It works fine for staves on top, but not for staves at the bottom (I guess it's a bug? I think it worked the first time I tried, but not anymore).
I solved it by placing Tenor Solo before the choir:
In reply to It does, but partly. There is by Gauthier Östervall
The problem is that I had to move the voice name manually to where it belongs, so I expect troubles when stuff starts moving around. Same for the courtesy clef, I couldn't have it belong to the first visible measure since it got anchored to the invisible measure, and thus not show.
So I put the clef to the last measure and offset manually. Here also I expect troubles.
In reply to Yes, but it keeps that by Jojo-Schmitz
Concerning the initial barline: right click -> staff properties -> hide system barline?
In reply to One thing, which is already by kuwitt
That was valuable, this is how I ended up doing it.
Nightly builds from the master branch have support for Ossias (in staff properties), These look like what you seem to want your score to look like
In reply to Nightly builds from the by Jojo-Schmitz
That's good news. I really should try once more to get all the dependencies working so I can build...
In reply to That's good news. I really by Gauthier Östervall
no need to build yourself, just grab from https://musescore.org/en/download#Nightly-versions
But be aware that these are not meant for daily work, as they are quite unstable