Hiding/Showing blank staves after final flows

You can hide/show additional blank staves to fill the page after the final flow in each layout independently, for example, if you want to emulate the convention of showing additional blank staves between the final system and the bottom of the page when formatting part layouts for recording sessions.

Procedure

  1. Press Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-L to open Layout Options.
  2. In the Layouts list, select the layouts in which you want to hide/show blank staves after the ends of flows.

    By default, the layout currently open in the music area is selected when you open the dialog. You can select other layouts by using the selection options in the action bar, Shift-clicking adjacent layouts, and Ctrl/Cmd-clicking individual layouts.

  3. Click Page Setup in the category list.
  4. In the Flows section, activate/deactivate Fill frame with blank staves.
  5. If you activated Fill frame with blank staves, activate/deactivate Show blank staves in systems identical to final flow.
  6. Customize the appearance of blank staves in one of the following ways:
    • If you activated Show blank staves in systems identical to final flow and want to show clefs that follow the previous flow on blank staves, choose Include clefs.

    • If you activated Show blank staves in systems identical to final flow and want to hide clefs on blank staves, choose Exclude clefs.

    • If you deactivated Show blank staves in systems identical to final flow, change the number of staff lines in blank staves by changing the value for Number of staff lines for blank staves.

Result

Blank staves are shown after the final flow in the selected layouts when Fill frame with blank staves is activated, and hidden when it is deactivated. When shown, blank staves appear below the final system in the final flow and fill the width of the final system if it is not fully horizontally justified.

When Show blank staves in systems identical to final flow is activated, blank staves follow the staff grouping of the final flow, such as two bracketed staves in a part layout with two players assigned to it. When it is deactivated, single blank staves without clefs are shown.

Note

You cannot input music or change brackets/braces on blank staves.