Open tygoee opened 2 weeks ago
I just posted this same issue today. It's a popular issue. #25107
I generally use white text just saying Text to unhide hidden staves. I do that a lot in operas, cantatas, basically anything where the instrumentation changes from section to section.
@DaddyLudwig I mentioned that, I do the same. But I'm sometimes also extracting parts and multimeasure rests break on rests
Your idea
When writing (especially pre-engraved) orchestral pieces in Musescore, I use "Hide empty staves" to hide all empty staves. This works nicely, but there are sometimes reasons to show them anyway:
The wind instruments often have systems where they are not playing, so they don't show up. But in those measures, they have to be visible together with the strings section.
Problem to be solved
There's currently no way to do this in musescore. I've seen multiple questions on musescore.org about this topic #331110 #237664 #198946 and the answer is usually either 'that's not possible' or 'try this workaround'.
Prior art
Suggested workarounds I've seen are:
Besides this making export files sloppy, I also ran into an issue when creating parts: the multimeasure parts were broken apart. I tried to solve it, but after trying to hide/move/remove it individually from the main score i ended up creating seperate instruments/staves.
Additional context
In ons of these issues I recall seeing a Musescore team member/contributer respond that it would be nice if it had this feature, but I couldn't find the issue.
For reference, here is the transcribed file: Concerto_No._7_in_F_Major_K._242_Londron__Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart.mscz
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