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5. Activate/Deactivate Allow individual staves of multi-staff instruments to be hidden.
6. Optional: For Players excluded from Hide Empty Staves, activate the checkbox for each
instrument you want to be shown regardless of your choice for Hide empty staves.
7. Click Apply, then Close.
RESULT
Empty staves in the selected layouts are hidden/shown according to your choice. If you activated
Allow individual staves of multi-staff instruments to be hidden, any single empty staves in
multi-staff instruments, such as piano or harp, can be hidden in the selected layouts.
RELATED LINKS
Extra staves on page 802
Changing the default staff/system spacing on page 334
Per-layout vertical spacing options on page 364
Starting layouts on left-hand pages
By default, all layouts start on a right-hand page, as convention dictates that odd numbered
pages are always on the right-hand page. However, you can set individual layouts to start on a
left-hand page, for example, to facilitate page turns better in that layout.
PROCEDURE
1. Press Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-L to open Layout Options.
2. In the Layouts list, select the layouts you want to start on a left-hand page.
By default, the layout currently open in the music area is selected when you open the dialog.
You can select other layouts by using the selection options in the action bar, Shift -clicking
adjacent layouts, and Ctrl/Cmd -clicking individual layouts.
3. Click Page Setup in the page list.
4. In the Page Numbers section, change the value for Initial page number to an even
number.
5. Click Apply, then Close.
RESULT
The rst page in the selected layouts is shown on a left-hand page when the initial page number
is even.
Allowing/Disallowing multiple ows on the same page
You can allow/disallow new ows to be shown on the same page as previous ows if there is
space, for example, to reduce the number of pages required for parts in works with multiple
movements. By default, new ows are allowed on the same page in part layouts and are not
allowed in full score layouts.
PROCEDURE
1. Press Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-L to open Layout Options.
2. In the Layouts list, select the layouts in which you want to allow multiple ows to be shown
on each page.
By default, the layout currently open in the music area is selected when you open the dialog.
You can select other layouts by using the selection options in the action bar, Shift -clicking
adjacent layouts, and Ctrl/Cmd -clicking individual layouts.
Layout and formatting
Page formatting
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