Decrease the Spacing Between Notes/Making Certain Notes a Different Font Size
Hi, so I've come across this many times where I am transcribing pieces in Musescore, but trying to stay as true to the original as possible. In the originals of songs I have noticed that when there are runs using 32nd notes, the notes are smooshed together in the original, but Musescore likes to give the notes a bunch of unwanted space between the notes (btw the left also has 32nd notes, but in other pieces I have seen where quarter notes are pushed together to save unnecessary space). Why I would like this is bc of all the extra space, I am left with two measures being split onto two separate pages unlike the original, where they are both on one line.
In a particular piece I am looking at, which I'm sorry but am not going to put a pdf of, has those runs being a slight smaller font than the rest of the piece, so if there is a way to do that, then please let me know, if not, then I request that to be added into a future update.
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You should study the handbook
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/page-settings
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/layout-and-formatting#layout-stretch
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/inspector#chord
In reply to You should study https:/… by Mr Fox
Thank you for the reply, but I already have several times and none of those worked for me
In reply to Thank you for the reply, but… by Reffman
Have you tried the style settings for the bar (measure)?
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"... runs being a slight smaller font than the rest of the piece"
An alternative approach is to increase the relative size of Small notes (e.g. from the default 70% to 80% of normal note size). Menu option Format > Style > Sizes:
Then you can select the run and change the Chord size to Small in the Inspector.
In reply to Have you tried the style… by DanielR
Thanks! There is one slight problem, however. The distance between the small notes did not decrease from normal, still resulting in the two measures being split over the page
In reply to Thanks! There is one slight… by Reffman
That's puzzling... I can get the notes closer together, simply by changing Format > Style > Bar > Minimum note distance . Note the extra empty bar in the second image:
![Minimum note distance - default 0.20 sp.png]( "Minimum note distance - default 0.20 sp.png")
![Minimum note distance - custom 0.02 sp.png]( "Minimum note distance - custom 0.02 sp.png")
The downside is that the closer spacing will affect the rest of your score too.
If you really have to cram these notes into a single system, then the only solution left is to experiment by gradually reducing Format > Page Settings... > Scaling until you are happy with the fit.
The things being discussed here are definitely relevant settings, but depending on the specifics of your particular score, could be other things at play. In order to do more than guess, we'd need you to attach it and describe the problem in more detail - which specific measure(s) are you trying to alter, etc.