Hiding/Showing rests

You can hide/show implicit rests by suppressing all rests before/after notes, up to the start/end of the flow.

Procedure

  1. Select the notes before/after which you want to hide/show rests. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate/deactivate the following properties, individually or together, in the Notes and Rests group:

    • Starts voice

    • Ends voice

Result

Implicit rests are hidden before/after the selected notes when the properties are activated, and shown when the properties are deactivated.

If rests are not hidden when you activate either property, it might be because there are explicit rests in the bar. You must turn explicit rests into implicit rests before you can hide them.

Tip

You can also suppress implicit rests in any gaps between different voices that might occur in the middle of a flow.

This requires you to set Ends voice on the last note of the first voice, and Starts voice on the first note of the second voice, if the gap between those notes spans multiple barlines.