Ledger Lines (Hide) Plug-in, Ledger Lines (Show) Plug-in

How to get there

From the menu, choose Note, Beam, and Rest Editing, Ledger Lines (Hide) or Ledger Lines (Show). If there is no music selected when you invoke Ledger Lines (Hide) or Ledger Lines (Show), it will ask you if you want to process the entire document.

What it does

Use the Selection Tool to select a region from which you wish to hide ledger lines from all entries, then choose the Ledger Lines (Hide) command from the menu. The plug-in will go through all entries in the selected region and hide the ledger lines.

Use the Selection Tool to select a region from in which you want hidden ledger lines to be made visible, then choose the Ledger Lines (Show) command from the from the menu. This would typically be a section where you had previously hidden ledger lines with the Ledger Lines (Hide) command. The plug-in will go through all entries in the selected region and make the ledger lines visible. (This is analogous to using the Undo command after the Ledger Lines (Hide) command, with the difference that you can use the Ledger Lines (Show) command any time after hiding the ledger lines; the undo command would everything after hiding the ledger lines.)

Notes

If you “hide” ledger lines from a note on the staff, then later modify the note such that it is above or below the staff, it will be drawn without ledger lines. Analogously, if you apply the Ledger Lines (Show) command to a note on the staff, and then later move the note above or below the staff, it will be drawn with ledger lines.

If there are no entries in the selected region, or if ledger lines have already been removed from the entries, an Alert is posted to explain that the Ledger Lines (Hide) command had nothing to modify. Similarly, if you apply the Ledger Lines (Show) command to a region where all entries are already set to have visible ledger lines, an Alert will explain that no modifications were made.

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