>> Never seen that, AFAIK. Can you provide a link to such a score?
>
> I can certainly imagine that sort of things, in an orchestral score
> simple enough that all instruments share the same dynamics (as was
> common until the late 18th century), and where the LilyPonder may
> want to store all that in a shared variable, including for systems
> where for example all the wind instruments are tacet.
Well, sharing is OK, but displaying? Are you really saying there
exist scores that have staff lines only with rests, and which also
have dynamics like 'f' or 'p'? Besides not making any sense, it would
completely confuse the player IMHO.
Werner