Hi Dennis, It should actually collapse the space between staves (make sure you are selecting the entire system). Although you are correct that if you collapse the bottom staff, it will take up space.
You can use "cutaway" instead of "collapse" if you do want the hidden staves to take up space. Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On Oct 9, 2012, at 9:30 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, October 9, 2012 7:13 pm, Darcy James Argue wrote: >> It is actually in the Finale 2011 default file, but you probably aren't >> basing >> your documents on the default file. Just create it yourself by defining a new >> staff style that uses the "Force Hide Staff" option (it's in between "Flat >> Beams" and "Ignore Key Signatures"). > > Yes, I saw that and gave it a quick try, but it didn't collapse the space > between staves. I perhaps mistakenly assumed that if I put the scratch staff > at the bottom, it would be invisible but still take up space. > > Thanks again... onward to try to make this thing look a little better. > > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
