Hello all,
I'm trying to make stave 1 disappear until it is need for two solo bits later (bar 36). It is working fine except for the empty stave at the start of the music (only the one movement). This empty line only has the treble clef and time signature ('C'), the bar lines, and nothing else.
I have tried "suspend 1" in the header, 'suspend' in the stave definition, and as a directive, as well as a mix of these. I've also tried R! instead of Q!. The omitempty is a recent addition.
Relevant part of file (currently) looks like this
...
barnumbers boxed 999
suspend 1
[stave 1 omitempty]
[35] Q! | [resume] [text underlay]
[barnumber]
"Solo (Sop)"/a
...
Any hints much appreciated. Although I've been using PMW on and off for almost 20 years (usually for transposing) this is the first time I've done something a bit more complex.
Also there seems to be a bug using the [reset] directive with vocals. I get the vocals for the next bar over-printing the vocals for the bar with the [reset] - however I got around that by creating another stave with zero spacing (it is clever enough to space the lyrics from the first stave correctly - even when the additional stave has extra notes - thank you for that Philip)).
Thank you, and have a good day.
Dave