Hello all,
I am using titling of movements by locking one measure to one system and blanking everything out with staff styles except the expression with "Nr x." It has some advantages. But recently I got a problem of group brackets showing up on this otherwise blank system.
I guess I can split groups at these points and delete the brackets, but this takes some time even with the JW Split groups plugin. Is there a more efficient way you can think of? I thought about hiding the bracket via staff styles, but I did not succeed with that.
Thanks in advance for any input.
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Titling/groups problem
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There is an option to hide brackets when the group has only one staff.
For movement titling, I just use a custom Rehearsal Marks Category, and then add extra system margin Top and left to give it a bit of space and an indent. Or a page break.
For movement titling, I just use a custom Rehearsal Marks Category, and then add extra system margin Top and left to give it a bit of space and an indent. Or a page break.
Rehearsal marks is a good idea, but you won't get the spacing between movements automatically in score and parts.
The problem with the brackets is that I do need to show them also with only one staff...
The problem with the brackets is that I do need to show them also with only one staff...
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It's true you don't get the automatic space between movements with an expression, but is that really a big deal? I assume you're dragging systems up and down anyway when formatting a part.
Maybe not... Maybe I should rethink this. But usually it is enough to just run the Space Systems plug-in on the parts and it's done. So I still think it's worth the trouble when doing large works with lots of movements and many parts.
I solved this by splitting the groups which also took some time. Next time I will try to make one scratch staff at the top of the score that only holds the titles, no group and bracket. Then I think that is the staff that is going to show up instead of the bracketed one.
I solved this by splitting the groups which also took some time. Next time I will try to make one scratch staff at the top of the score that only holds the titles, no group and bracket. Then I think that is the staff that is going to show up instead of the bracketed one.
Finale 2014.5, Finale 25, Dorico 4, Musescore 4
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