musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Empty staves in a stave sharing group should not vanish from the score

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Your idea

When Automatically hide all empty staves is off, empty staves should be considered for combining, as instruments with music.

Problem to be solved

Here, Cls.3–4 should be combined onto a second staff (sharing bar rests):

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b9622af5-3105-42ab-89a0-b739afef4d8a

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