blank notation -- help!

[Tallis]

Hi all,

I have a vocal line with some ornaments that aren't playing correctly, so I wrote the rhythm out precisely in layer three, and applied blank notation style to hide those messier notes. Then assigned playback to the hidden layer.

This worked beautifully, until I went in to change one note. Clicking on layer three (with show-active-layer-only) brought up the apparently empty staff, whereupon I "unhid" the relevant note and changed it. But, having done so, I can no longer hide it again. I've tried selecting the bar and applying the staff style again: no change. I selected the whole staff and applied it again: this time, it left the notes visible in layer 3 but hid all the notes in layer 1!

Clearly I'm missing a setting somewhere. I'd be grateful for any suggestions.

(ps ... I can hide the note individually in speedy entry, but then it's unavailable for playback... which is its only purpose.)

[miker]

Posting the doc would help us figure it out.

[Tallis]

Sure -- see attached. The issue is in bar 7 of the Soprano 1 part. (I did manage to restore the visible notes in layer one, but am still trying to hide the sounding notes in layer three.)

[motet]

Do you mean measure 8?

The predefined Blank Notation staff style is for layer 1. You need to define a new one for layer3.

[Tallis]

Perfect! That did the trick -- many thanks.

And yes, I meant bar eight. I'm another musician who can't count, apparently....

[motet]

I saw "normal notation" applied to one of the staves--I think you can get rid of that.