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Great, thanks for that!

But once more, just to be completely sure: is it really not possible to hide stems rather than let them disappear altogether?

Aha, so it's impossible to hide them like one would hide other elements? This is a bit surprising since flags only can be hidden... I am not dealing with "regular" stems, but those you find above a tablature staff (I'm editing lute tablature). I want to replace the standard rhythm signs (i.e., stems...

Hi all,

Is it possible to hide the stem of a note so that this stem is only visible (in grey) when I select view > hidden objects?

I am aware that I can create stemless notes through the properties menu (notehead no. 8 ), but this way the stem is "gone" altogether.

Thanks!
Rapshnel

OK. I guess it's simply not possible then; too bad.

Thanks for your reply!

Hi sooby77,

Did you already solve the problem? I am dealing with it too; also with subscript letters...

Rapshnel

Hi,

Is it possible to change a barline (i.e., from normal to dashed) in only one staff of multipart music, while the barline(s) in the other staff or staves remain unaffected?

Thanks!

Rapshnel

Hi all, I have a piece in which the voices regularly jump from the upper staff to the lower (and vice versa) in order to avoid lots of ugly leger lines. This obscures the polyphony of course, and it is usually solved by connecting the last note on the one staff and the first on the other by a line. ...

Hi vilnai,

I've tried it and it worked--thanks!

@ musictranscriber: sounds interesting, I'll check it out!

Reinier

Hi, Is it possible to alter the number of bars on a system manually, i.e., to decide per system how many bars you want on it? My particular problem is this: I have a piece consisting of six pages, with on the last page only one system containing six very wide-spaced bars. It would be great if I coul...

Hi Andy,

Thanks a lot--I cannot believe that I didn't find that myself!

Reinier/Rapshnel

Hi, I have a very simple problem: I'm notating a piece in which a 2/2 and a 3/4 meter alternate. I want the dotted minim in 3/4 to take up the equal amount of time as the (undotted) minim in 2/2. Normally, I'd write [minim] = [dotted minim] above the staff, but I can't find how to do this in Sibeliu...

Aha, I learn a little more about Sibelius every day! I already found it hard to imagine that there wasn't an easy way to do this... My scores aren't large (three to four pages at most), and there aren't very many instances in which I have my particular problem, so this solution is actually perfect. ...

Ah, I see. Well, it would be great if you could rewrite it some day when you have more time. If you do so, please let me know--I don't see any other way of changing my beaming... It's a shame that such simple things take so much trouble in Sibelius.

Thanks again for your help so far,
Reinier

Hi again Bastis,

I just noticed that your plugin does not work in a 3/2 meter; is that correct? And do you happen to have a solution for that too?

Thanks,
Reinier

I've found an old trick to solve the problem: when I zoom in (300% or so) I actually can select that left handle. Problem solved!

Thanks again for your help!

Reinier