I've just figured out a way after playing around with styles and groups for a while.
(by the way, this is in Viola 2) 1) Set the full strings group to only between staves. 2) All of the sub-groups in the strings set to through staves. 3) Set the viola group to a custom invisible bar line. No barlines in both viola staves now. 4) Set Viola 1 & 2 staves to hide bar lines throughout. It will now show bar lines. (why?) 5) Use a staff style to SHOW the bar line in the measure I want it to be invisible. This doesn't make sense — why should the barline show on the viola staves after removing the viola group's invisible one if the strings group is supposed to be only between? — but it works. Thanks for the suggestions! On Feb 13, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Ryan Beard wrote: > Have you tried creating a staff style that breaks the barline between staves > as well? That should override the grouping issue. > You may need to apply a staff style to two staves. First create a staff style > that unchecks barlines and break bars between staves. Apply that to the staff > in question. Then to the staff below that, apply a style that just breaks the > barline. > I'm away from my finale computer so there might be a simpler way, but this is > where I would start. > > On Feb 13, 2010, at 6:46 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
