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Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: welldriller on 2006-09-29 06:41 AM

Title: Number of staves per system
Post by: welldriller on 2006-09-29 06:41 AM
Can the number of staves per system be varied during a composition?
Title: Re: Number of staves per system
Post by: David Palmquist on 2006-09-29 07:13 AM
I think you're asking of you can have a page that has an extra staff added to the score for only part of the piece.  For instance, a piano and voice tune might have just two staffs until the voice starts, then it has three.

Unfortunately, no.



Title: Re: Number of staves per system
Post by: Ewan Harwood on 2006-10-02 11:29 PM
A part work-around might be to divide your piece by page, working from the front.  You'd need to save each section into a different file, where you can choose which staves to print.  It's messy, tedious, and splits your work.  I only use it if I really have to have the look correct, or if I have nasty page turns.  Even then, I still keep the original as a complete file.

You might be able to print the individual pages one-at-a-time from the same file, but when you adjust the number of printing staves, the pagination would mess up.  You'd need to do some serious set-visibility Never, or inserting extra space to make it work.