"Hide Resting Staffs" in Notion 2.2
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:05 amHi, Folks,
I'm new here, so please forgive me if this issue has already been discussed in the past.
I'm using Notion 2.2. The "Hide Resting Staffs" feature does not work as expected. It does not hide resting or empty staffs in a given system; the only staffs it hides are the ones for instruments for which I have not yet added any music … in other words, for instruments that don’t play at all during the entire piece! As soon as I add some music for one of these instruments—even if it doesn't play until measure 100—its staffs show on every page, even the ones on which it is tacet.
Also (as everyone knows), it's conventional to show the entire instrumentation of a piece on the first page of a score, even those not playing … and there doesn't seem to be a way to exempt page one from the "Hide Resting Staffs" mechanism. So, even if it worked correctly, the first page wouldn't show everything.
Am I doing something wrong, here? The "feature" would be awfully silly if it hid only instruments that never play. After all, if they never play, they shouldn't be in the score at all!
Please advise, and
Many thanks,
Mickey
(Notion Newbie)
I'm new here, so please forgive me if this issue has already been discussed in the past.
I'm using Notion 2.2. The "Hide Resting Staffs" feature does not work as expected. It does not hide resting or empty staffs in a given system; the only staffs it hides are the ones for instruments for which I have not yet added any music … in other words, for instruments that don’t play at all during the entire piece! As soon as I add some music for one of these instruments—even if it doesn't play until measure 100—its staffs show on every page, even the ones on which it is tacet.
Also (as everyone knows), it's conventional to show the entire instrumentation of a piece on the first page of a score, even those not playing … and there doesn't seem to be a way to exempt page one from the "Hide Resting Staffs" mechanism. So, even if it worked correctly, the first page wouldn't show everything.
Am I doing something wrong, here? The "feature" would be awfully silly if it hid only instruments that never play. After all, if they never play, they shouldn't be in the score at all!
Please advise, and
Many thanks,
Mickey
(Notion Newbie)
and unfortunately I don't have v.2.2 I'm using v.3 so I don't know if it's different between the 2 versions. However in Notion 3 I can, in "Score Setup" chose to have every individual staff be visible or invisible by checking the V mark to the left of the staffs and here it's working fine, I hope this could be of any assistance to you.