Any way to make dotted staff lines?
I’m finding way to make the staff lines dotted, but not by drawing a line. Because, drawing a line would overlap the notes, so it woud make the notes dotted, too. But if I don’t draw through the notes, I have to draw endless lines for pieces like Chopin’s.
Is there a way like properties that we just need to choose dotted lines instead of normal lines?
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Why I need it? It help making notation much more clear and easy to read this way. I made an example with photoshop, which also endless steps to make just a page. So I need another efficient way in practice. Please see attachments.
If you like this idea, welcome to use this idea freely and share it broadly!
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Comments
Select all measures in the stave and add a white, dashed/dotted line of suitable thickness, making sure it is behind the notes but above the black stave lines. Then move it into vertical position for each stave and make it the full stave width.
In reply to Select all measures in the… by yonah_ag
Wow
Hopefully it will become a built-in feature too, it's a bit of a cumbersome workaround for a lot of staves on pages, but I know there's already a lot on the developers' plates. But at least there's a workaround.
In reply to Wow Hopefully it will become… by MK140221
I doubt that it will become a built-in feature anytime soon because a stave line is a stave line and they are all children of a stave object and share the same characteristics. It's up there with the "desperate need" for free-form note input, non-standard Time Signatures, prepared piano soundfonts and the like. That is to say, a few people want it but there are many more pressing issues to develop.
In reply to Wow Hopefully it will become… by MK140221
If the plugin API supported adding lines then it would be easy to implement but it would still be a workaround as the actual stave lines would still be there only masked by white dots or dashes.