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General Discussion / Sectional staffs & printing
I've read the posts on partial staffs (https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=6701.0;prev_next=prev#new).  As a choral arranger it's not what I was hoping to find.  When voices split midway through a piece (e.g. Tenor I & Tenor II), each voice gets its own staff until they merge into a single voice again.  This is standard form for choral sheet music, and a very common priactice in choral composing.

Chorale music publishers generally don't do their own layouts anymore - most require scores be sent camera-ready, so I hope this will be high on the priority list for the next Noteworthy upgrade.  It would also make it possible to transpose a portion of a staff instead of the whole thing - a very helpful editing tool for moving several measures of counterpoint from Alto to Bass to get the voicing right.

As a work around, someone suggested using multiple files, each with the necessary number of staffs.  It is possible to stitch these into one seamless document for printing?   Choristers get touchy when they see gaps in the sheet music, and start trying to add notes the composer didn't intend.