Empty bars with text not visible when hiding empty staves

• Jan 21, 2015 - 00:40
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore

1. Open attached score (produced in 1.3).
2. 'Style'>'General…'.
3. Tick 'Hide empty staves'.
4. 'OK'.

Expected result: Systems, or staves appear where there is text.
Actual result: Neither staves nor bars are visible.

Notes:

The system text and rehearsal mark is visible, in comparison to stave text and chord symbol.

It is also reproducible in a 2.0 score.

Using MuseScore 2.0 Nightly Build 4516685 - Mac 10.7.5.

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Comments

• Jan 21, 2015 - 02:23

This has been a conscious decision, I think, to define "empty" as literally meaning no notes. I don't know the reasons, but ti deso seem questionable. I guess on the positive side, it's easy enough to override - just placed some invisible notes on the staves you don't want hidden. Whereas the reverse wouldn't be true if we changed the default.

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• Dec 12, 2015 - 21:52

What do others think? It does seem if you've gone to the trouble of attaching text to a measure, you probably want to see it. I kind of think text shouldn't disqualify a measure from being seen as empty for the purpose of creating multimeasure rests, but should for the purpose of hiding empty staves.

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