regarding the spacing, you might find it useful
to integrate {DocOptions/Music Spacing/Avoid
Collision of: Hidden Notes} into what robert
already mentioned.
if you use a specific layer ONLY for those hidden
notes and nowhere else in the score, then
DocOptions/Layers and uncheck "affects spacing"
for that layer.
even more geeky, in speedy entry, in the hidden
layer, opt-click (mac) on the measure and you can
define which notes affect the music spacing.
note i have not had 100% success with this in
other contexts (collisions of layers where i want
an abnormal positioning of one or both of the
layers), seems to be only a problem on the 1st
note in the measure.
you could use a value like 15% or something for
the "hidden object shading" (prefs/view). this
is a global setting, but 15% is faded enough to
not really disturb and you can still read any
text that is hidden (e.g., i use a category
defined with hidden text to make notes in the
score for myself about workarounds or quirky
approaches to notating things).
>I'm assuming you know about View->Show->Hidden Notes and Rests. Beyond
>that, there are settings in Preferences->View that give a measure of
>control over how hidden objects display.
>
>On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 1:40 PM, David Froom <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear collective wisdom,
>>
>> I know how to hide things, either one at a time or with staff styles. When
>> they are hidden, they show up as opaque white things, and mess up the look
>> of the page. I know they don¹t print, but I like the score I¹m working on
>> to look like it will when I print. Does anyone know how to make hidden
>> things also transparent, so they are truly hidden on the screen?
>>
>> I have tried just sliding them out of the way. With rests or dynamics or
>> articulations, there is usually an empty spot to put them in. But with
>> hidden notes (say, with one layer hidden because it is playing correctly
>> but another layer showing because of how I want it to look), they are just
>> in the way. If I slide them out of the way with special tools, it messes up
> > the spacing.
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