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Designing your score: additional techniques
Auto Layout
Hide Empty Staves
This hides all empty staves, from the active staff to the end of the score. Note that
polyphonic/split staves are in this case treated as one entity, if the clef in the upper
system differs from that in the lower system. That is, a piano staff is considered
“empty” only if there are no notes on either staff.
• If you have activated the “Hidden” option on the filter bar, hidden staves are
indicated by a marker with the text “Hide:Name” (where “Name” is the staff name).
To display hidden staves, delete their “Hide” markers.
• If you activate the “Auto Layout: Don’t hide first staff” option in the Preferences
dialog (Scores–Editing page), staves in the very first grand staff are not hidden,
even if they are empty.
This is useful for example if you are creating an orchestra score, and want to show
the complete “layout” of the orchestra on the first page of the score, without hiding
anything.
All Pages
Activate this if you want to apply the options above to all pages. Please note that this
setting is applied to the active staff and onwards. If you want all pages in the score to
be affected, you have to make the very first staff (the first staff on the first page) the
active staff.
Move Bars and Staves
This is a combination of “Move Bars”, “Move Staves”, and “All Pages”, plus automatic
calculation of the number of bars across the page – the function tries to optimize the
number of bars across the page for each staff (with the maximum number of bars as
set in the dialog).
Optimize All
All of the above in one fell swoop. This procedure might take some time but usually
yields great results.
Other functions
In the lower part of the dialog, the following options are available:
Setting Description
Auto Space/
Page Mode
The higher the value, the more space is allowed for each
element in the score (and thus, the fewer the bars across the
page).
Minimum Distance
between Staves
When you use an Auto Layout function that moves staves
(changes the vertical staff distance), this setting determines the
minimum distance between the staves.
Minimum Distance
between Grand Staves
This sets the minimum distance between Grand Staves in the
same way.
Add to Auto Layout
Distance
This number is added to the distance between staves that is
added when you use any of the Auto Layout functions. The
higher the number, the larger the distance between staves.
‘Spread Page’ Bottom
Distance
This is added to the white space that appears on the bottom of a
page when using the Spread Page functions.
Max. Number
of Bars
This allows you to specify the maximum number of bars per staff
when using the “Bars and Staves” or “Optimize All” functions.