David W. Fenton wrote:
My point is that simple optimization (i.e., removing blank staves from a systen) should happen automatically if you have optimization turned on for the passage of music represented on a system (while I understand that Johannes has a use for optimization being stored in absolute systems, I think that's a different kind of issue that comes about because of the way one is forced to create parts in Finale -- if they were all stored in the same file instead of in separate files, his issue would likely go away, since you'd have a score layout and a part layout, all stored in a single file; but that's another issue where I think Finale is confusing and less than ideal).
In my case this has nothing to do with parts at all. The reason I need to optimize out parts which have got music in them has to do with doubling parts. For instance, in some situations the first and second violins play identical parts, and for space reasons I just want to show one of them, but the other one needs to have the music in it both for later part extraction but also because the decision to optimize out the second violin part is made at a later stage and needs to be reversible.
Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de
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