Barlines broken when rearranging staves in multi-staff instruments
I'm doing some sketching in MuseScore, using an Accordion staff where I added a third staff.
Now I find that I really want an ossia in one place.
So I go to Layout > Accordion > Add staff, and I get a treble staff below the existing three staves.
Problem: The new staff is marked as the bottom of the staff group for barlines. So, after I move it (for ossia purposes) to the top, there's an Accordion staff at the top that is isolated from the others both in terms of the brace and barlines. The brace can be deleted and recreated, but I can't find an option to fix the staff group barlines. In Staff/Part properties, it isn't "show barlines," "hide system barlines," or... oh. Those are the only barline properties in that dialog.
Is it possible to make it look correct in this case, or is the new staff permanently "at the bottom" for barlines even when it isn't physically at the bottom?
hjh
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And problem #2: After doing "hide when empty = always" and "cutaway," now the normally visible staves for Accordion are staves 2-4 -- and it has automagically changed the clef of staff 2 to bass clef.
There is no reason why changing one staff's visibility should affect the clef of a neighboring staff!
Edit: It's any change to staff 1 that borks staff 2's clef. Weird.
Log bug reports for these later?
hjh
In reply to And problem #2: After doing … by jamshark70
For the bar line problem.
Select the first bar line in the top staff. A gray box appears at the bottom of the bar line. Drag the box down to the next staff and all will be connected.
We might need your score to answer the second question.
In reply to For the bar line problem… by bobjp
Got it for the barlines, thanks. Would not have guessed.
Attaching two scores -- before setting staff/part properties, and after.
hjh
In reply to Got it for the barlines,… by jamshark70
Maybe you've confused MuseScore by having three treble accordion staves. In which case the second from the top would be bass clef. And it shows after you change the top staff. No idea. But you can change it back to treble. Don't forget that you don't need the top staff to be bracketed because it won't be visible most the time.
As an experiment, I added the top two staves as flute and then jumped through all the hoops to make them accordion and look right. When I altered the top staff there was no problem with the second staff.