Hiding/Showing blank staves after flows

You can hide/show additional blank staves to fill the page after either all flows or only the final flow in each layout independently; for example, to emulate the recording session convention of showing additional blank staves between the final system and the bottom of the page.

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, clicking and dragging across multiple layouts, Shift-clicking adjacent layouts, and Ctrl/Cmd-clicking individual layouts.

  3. In the category list, click Page Setup.
  4. In the Flows section, choose one of the following options for Fill frame with blank staves:

    • Never

    • After every flow

    • Only after last flow

  5. If you chose After every flow or Only after last flow, do one of the following:

    • To show blank staves that follow the staff grouping of the preceding flow, such as two bracketed staves in a part layout with two players assigned to it, activate Show blank staves in systems identical to preceding flow.

    • To show single blank staves without clefs, deactivate Show blank staves in systems identical to preceding flow.

  6. Customize the appearance of blank staves in one of the following ways:

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

    • If you deactivated Show blank staves in systems identical to preceding 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 hidden or shown in the selected layouts. When shown, blank staves appear below the final system of the corresponding flows and fill the width of final systems that are not fully horizontally justified.

Note

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