musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Empty staves should be skipped when combining onto shared staves when empty staves are meant to be hidden
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Your idea
With Automatically hide all empty staves or if an empty staff has been hidden manually, it should not be considered for stave sharing.
Problem to be solved
Clarinet 2 is hidden on this system. Cls.1 and 3 should therefore be able to pair onto a single staff, with Cl.2 omitted.
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