Creating an empty staff #3747
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Hi, I am building a music theory application that is using Verovio to render musical examples. The issue that I've run into is not being able to control the width of staff that is empty. Is it possible to render an empty staff that spans the whole width of the page? Or is it possible only with hacks like hidden placeholder notes? |
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Yes, you can add Here I have created measures with half-note invisible rests which force the measure to fill the system with the maximum spacing parameters: 
Note that I also made the barlines invisible if you want it totally blank. Click to view MEI data for above example<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-model href="https://music-encoding.org/schema/5.0/mei-all.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?>
<?xml-model href="https://music-encoding.org/schema/5.0/mei-all.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron"?>
<mei xmlns="http://www.music-encoding.org/ns/mei" meiversion="5.0">
<meiHead>
<fileDesc>
<titleStmt>
<title />
</titleStmt>
<pubStmt/>
</fileDesc>
<encodingDesc>
<appInfo>
<application isodate="2024-08-25T17:43:45" version="4.3.0-dev-6e49bf7-dirty">
<name>Verovio</name>
<p>Transcoded from Humdrum</p>
</application>
</appInfo>
</encodingDesc>
</meiHead>
<music>
<body>
<mdiv xml:id="m3bs61i">
<score xml:id="svswc15">
<scoreDef xml:id="s1s42uo4" tempo.dist="3.0000vu">
<staffGrp xml:id="sljot4h">
<staffDef xml:id="staffdef-L3F1" n="1" lines="5">
<clef xml:id="clef-L4F1" shape="G" line="2" />
</staffDef>
</staffGrp>
</scoreDef>
<section xml:id="section-L3F1">
<measure xml:id="measure-L1" right="invis" n="1">
<staff xml:id="staff-L3F1" n="1">
<layer xml:id="layer-L1F1N1" n="1">
<space xml:id="space-L6F1" dur="2" />
</layer>
</staff>
</measure>
<measure xml:id="measure-L7" right="invis">
<staff xml:id="staff-L7F1N1" n="1">
<layer xml:id="layer-L7F1N1" n="1">
<space xml:id="space-L8F1" dur="2" />
</layer>
</staff>
</measure>
<measure xml:id="measure-L9" right="invis">
<staff xml:id="staff-L9F1N1" n="1">
<layer xml:id="layer-L9F1N1" n="1">
<space xml:id="space-L10F1" dur="2" />
</layer>
</staff>
</measure>
<measure xml:id="measure-L11" right="invis">
<staff xml:id="staff-L11F1N1" n="1">
<layer xml:id="layer-L11F1N1" n="1">
<space xml:id="space-L12F1" dur="2" />
</layer>
</staff>
</measure>
<measure xml:id="measure-L13" right="invis">
<staff xml:id="staff-L13F1N1" n="1">
<layer xml:id="layer-L13F1N1" n="1">
<space xml:id="space-L14F1" dur="2" />
</layer>
</staff>
</measure>
<measure xml:id="measure-L15" right="invis">
<staff xml:id="staff-L15F1N1" n="1">
<layer xml:id="layer-L15F1N1" n="1">
<space xml:id="space-L16F1" dur="2" />
</layer>
</staff>
</measure>
<measure xml:id="measure-L17" right="invis">
<staff xml:id="staff-L17F1N1" n="1">
<layer xml:id="layer-L17F1N1" n="1">
<space xml:id="space-L18F1" dur="2" />
</layer>
</staff>
</measure>
</section>
</score>
</mdiv>
</body>
</music>
</mei> |
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A more robust way is to use the 
In this case I tried rhythms from half note to 32nd note, and the measure always went to the full width of the system (which I elongated in this test). Click to view MEI data for above example.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-model href="https://music-encoding.org/schema/5.0/mei-all.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?>
<?xml-model href="https://music-encoding.org/schema/5.0/mei-all.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron"?>
<mei xmlns="http://www.music-encoding.org/ns/mei" meiversion="5.0">
<meiHead>
<fileDesc>
<titleStmt>
<title />
</titleStmt>
<pubStmt/>
</fileDesc>
<encodingDesc>
<appInfo>
<application isodate="2024-08-25T17:55:57" version="4.3.0-dev-6e49bf7-dirty">
<name>Verovio</name>
<p>Transcoded from Humdrum</p>
</application>
</appInfo>
</encodingDesc>
</meiHead>
<music>
<body>
<mdiv xml:id="m1qf58ut">
<score xml:id="spq11w1">
<scoreDef xml:id="s1ap27ca" tempo.dist="3.0000vu">
<staffGrp xml:id="s1ewamxk">
<staffDef xml:id="staffdef-L2F1" n="1" lines="5">
<clef xml:id="clef-L3F1" shape="G" line="2" />
</staffDef>
</staffGrp>
</scoreDef>
<section xml:id="section-L2F1">
<pb xml:id="p1s2i4xt" />
<measure xml:id="measure-L1" right="invis" n="1">
<staff xml:id="staff-L2F1" n="1">
<layer xml:id="layer-L1F1N1" n="1">
<space xml:id="space-L5F1" dur="2" />
</layer>
</staff>
</measure>
<sb xml:id="sb-L7F1" type="z" />
<measure xml:id="measure-L7" right="invis" n="2">
<staff xml:id="staff-L7F1N1" n="1">
<layer xml:id="layer-L7F1N1" n="1">
<space xml:id="space-L8F1" dur="4" />
</layer>
</staff>
</measure>
<sb xml:id="sb-L10F1" type="z" />
<measure xml:id="measure-L10" right="invis" n="3">
<staff xml:id="staff-L10F1N1" n="1">
<layer xml:id="layer-L10F1N1" n="1">
<space xml:id="space-L11F1" dur="8" />
</layer>
</staff>
</measure>
<sb xml:id="sb-L13F1" type="z" />
<measure xml:id="measure-L13" right="invis" n="4">
<staff xml:id="staff-L13F1N1" n="1">
<layer xml:id="layer-L13F1N1" n="1">
<space xml:id="space-L14F1" dur="16" />
</layer>
</staff>
</measure>
<sb xml:id="sb-L16F1" type="z" />
<measure xml:id="measure-L16" right="invis" n="5">
<staff xml:id="staff-L16F1N1" n="1">
<layer xml:id="layer-L16F1N1" n="1">
<space xml:id="space-L17F1" dur="32" />
</layer>
</staff>
</measure>
<sb xml:id="sb-L19F1" type="z" />
</section>
</score>
</mdiv>
</body>
</music>
</mei>
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Yes, you can add
<space>elements on the staff, with enough duration to fill the desired width of the system with one measure. You also need to setspacingNonLinearandspacingLinearoptions to the maximum value of 1.0 to have the measure spread as wide as possible.Here I have created measures with half-note invisible rests which force the measure to fill the system with the maximum spacing parameters:
[View in VHV]
Note that I also made the barlines invisible if you want it totally blank.
Click to view MEI data for above example