To hide the unhidable staff

[dj]

Hi, Sherry:

Here's another file with the same problem.

The Vocal staff does indeed hide properly when moved to the bottom of the system, however, that really won't work as I'll be distributing this among actual classically-trained musicians who want their score in the proper format.

The attached file shows that the Vocal staff (top staff) hides properly as long as the Solo (organ Solo manual) staff is not hidden, but that it unhides itself when the Solo staff hides. See bars 39 and 45 and again at 107.

I've checked hide for the Solo staff as Vocal staff refuses to hide at all as long as the Solo staff "hide" is unchecked. I don't actually want the Solo staff hidden at all.

It must have to do with the Vocal staff's position at the top of the system. And, indeed, when the Vocal staff is moved to the bottom and the Solo staff becomes the top, the Solo staff doesn't hide when empty, even though "hide" is selected (Bars 39 and 45 again).

So I think that the "top of the staff" position has something to do with it.

David

[dj]

And this time, I'll actually send the file.

[Sherry C]

Howdy David,

Thanks for your further explorations. This is indeed a stumper. I'll have to do some deeper digging to see if it's some quirk of the notation or if it's something to do with the template file having the Staff Setup that it does. Either case would be a bug, but at this point I'm not sure which it is.

Have you tried what happens if you use a template file that starts off with all staves using the same device, and you make the device changes after entering some notation?

ttfn,
Sherry

[dj]

I started to rebuild one of the numbers yesterday from the standard SATB+organ but the power went out and I sat grumpily in the dark for about an hour, then played Red Baron to get some aggression out.

I'll try again today.

David