Manual Staff Visibility dialog

The Manual Staff Visibility dialog allows you to hide, show, and reset individual staves manually from system/frame breaks.

You can open the Manual Staff Visibility dialog in Write mode and Engrave mode in any of the following ways:

  • Choose Edit > Notations > Staff > Manual Staff Visibility when an item is selected in the music area. You can also choose this option from the context menu.

  • Select a system/frame break signpost and press Return, or double-click a system/frame break signpost.

Manual Staff Visibility dialog

The Manual Staff Visibility dialog comprises the following:

  1. Staff list

    Contains all the staves that exist at the selected rhythmic position, including hidden empty staves. The staff list includes divisi, condensed, and extra staves. Activating staves includes them in the manual staff visibility change.

    For each staff, the following staff visibility options are available:

    • Reset: Resets the visibility of the staff to the default setting in the layout, as set on the Vertical Spacing page in Layout Options.

    • Show: Shows the staff from the selected rhythmic position onwards, whether it is empty or not.

    • Hide: Hides the staff from the selected rhythmic position onwards, whether it is empty or not.

    Note
    • You cannot hide/show ossia staves independently of their main staves.

    • Any staves you have added in the current flow, such as by adding extra staves or divisi changes, appear in the list, even after you have deleted them.

  2. Action bar

    Contains options that allow you to change the staff visibility setting of all staves simultaneously.

    • Clear All: Deactivates all staves.

    • Reset All: Activates all staves and sets them to Reset.

    • Show All: Activates all staves and sets them to Show.

    • Hide All: Activates all staves and sets them to Hide.