I'm unclear whether you need to have the barlines touch the staff (but not go through it), or whether you need to have the staff freestanding for the one bar.
If you only want the staff free-standing, you can do it with a staff style as Dennis described. If you want the barlines to touch the staff, then optimize the system where you want the special treatment and set up groups specially for that optimized system as I describe below (leaving the groups on the other systems and in Scroll View unchanged). Then use the "Override Group Barline" option in the measure attributes to show the barline in the measures where you want it to show. I have been able to get this to work, but it took some experimentation. There is a slight glitch in the behavior. Basically, the most reliable method of setting up the groups seems to be: 1. Create an over-arching group (with the name) that has mensurstriche turned on. 2. For the special staff, create a group with "On Staff" barline with a special barline of Nothing. 3. For the rest of the staves in the over-arching group, indiviually create a staff group with "On Staff" barline with special barline set to Normal. 4. Now the "Override Group Barline" in the measure attributes will work as you would wish, and allow you to show the barlines that you want. Contact me privately if you would like to get my sample file. On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Rich Caldwell <caldw...@shypuppy.net> wrote: > This affects the entire piece. How do I do this for only one bar? > > On Feb 13, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: >> You can do this with groups as follows. >> >> 1. For the entire group, set the "Draw Barlines" to "Only Between Staves". >> >> 2. Add an unnamed group for the staves above the special staff with >> "Draw Barlines" set to "Through Staves". >> >> 3. Add an unnamed group for the staves below the special staff with >> "Draw Barlines" set to "Through Staves". >> >> Done. >> >> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Rich Caldwell <caldw...@shypuppy.net> wrote: >>> I'd like to hide the bar line on one staff in a group in a large orchestral >>> score. In other words, the instrument's staff will break the barline. I >>> can't hide it using a staff style because I believe the group line >>> overrides it. >>> >>> A couple methods I can think of: >>> 1) Use an expression to white out the bar line. This seems to work well >>> enough, but hard to get perfect and I'm picky. >>> 2) Overlay another staff and hide the measure in the old one. I've never >>> done this sort of thing so I'm unsure of what pitfalls there might be. >>> 3) Hide the barline in this measure for all instruments and put in lines >>> manually. Pain to keep adjusting while working out the layout & parts. >>> >>> Has anyone else had to do this? Is there an easier way I'm missing? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Rich >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
