At 1:54 AM -0500 11/25/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to turn off the staff name display on only selected systems? I'm working on a score for a composer who sometimes uses one singer's staff for another singer's part.
Linda Cummings
Allegro Music Services
I suspect that you want to hide a staff name ("george",
say) so that you can manipulate a text expression into place to name
the staff differently (say, to "Lisa"). Don't do it that
way. Use a staff style, where only the full name and the abbreviated
name of the staff are different, and apply it to any part of the staff
where Lisa is singing. The advantages of this are many. You will never
have to optimise it, and if the layout ever changes, you won't have to
tweak the positioning of the text expression (which tends to move
around when layout changes.) It is also dead easy, and it is a
"set it and forget it" type edit, meaning you never have to
think about it again once you have done it.
All the other solutions proposed are kludges that we had to use
before we had the marvelous Staff Styles available.
If you really and truly want NO staff name, then make a staff
style that has the staff name hidden, and apply it to all appropriate
measures in the staff. Very easy.
Christopher
