Bar numbers not working
I have a file which I modified to conform more to a "jazzy" style presentation.
Now I can't change the bar number settings at all. Ideally I'd like to have bar numbers every bar, so that I can refer to them.
See attached.
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Tick Format > Style > Bar Numbers (in GB, Measure Numbers in the US), and also select Interval and set to 1.
See also https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/layout-and-formatting#style-measure…
In reply to Tick Format > Style > Bar… by Jojo-Schmitz
I know that - but it doesn't work on this file. I didn't post that without checking several times.
Don't assume that I haven't please.
Could something have gone wrong with my version of MS - or is it the music file which is at fault?
Or maybe a MacOS issue?
In reply to I know that - but it doesn't… by dave2020X
Then check my version of your score, it does work on that and I did exactly what I described.
It certainly is not the score that is at fault. And we're both using the same version, 3.6.2. But I'm on Windows. That is pretty unlikely to make a difference here though
In reply to I know that - but it doesn't… by dave2020X
You wrote:
...but it doesn't work on this file.
If you download your attachment, "Jazz_Rose_- v10.mscz" (not Jojo's) from this forum, does it work?
Could be a close/re-open thing.
In reply to You wrote: ...but it doesn't… by Jm6stringer
Ah yes, well possible, esp. as measure numbers are generated on the fly.
Any operation that generates a relayout should do too.
In reply to Ah yes, well possible, esp… by Jojo-Schmitz
". Ideally I'd like to have bar numbers every bar, so that I can refer to them."
See:
(Well, the first measure is an anacrusis : I should have taken that into account, I forgot, sorry - but that's not the first meaning of your question)
In reply to Ah yes, well possible, esp… by Jojo-Schmitz
Doesn't work with a download from this post - BUT it does work if I close MuseScore, then re-open it.
Should I expect that? If MuseScore is already open - possibly with other files - maybe not - then it doesn't seem to work.
Re the bar numbers - yes - I know about the anacrusis - and how to adjust the bar numbers as I want them to be.
I don't know what a relayout is. Thanks for checking - and looks as though the matter is at least temporarily solved - though I'd rather that whatever kind of glitch caused this could be flagged and eventually dealt with.
In reply to Doesn't work with a download… by dave2020X
If you can give precise steps to reproduce a problem, we can begin to investigate. but to be clear: for me, if I change the bar number settings on your score, it works exactly as expected. The only glitch I know of happens for the first system after a section break where sometimes after certain edit operations the number is displayed incorrectly.
Relayout is what MuseScore does after every edit - to not only display the note you added or other change you made, but to then adjust the rest of the score accordingly - like if you add notes, a measure needs to get wider, other measures need to get narrower, etc. Normally MuseScore only lays out the specific portion of a score affected by an edit operation. But occasionally something goes wrong and something that should have been flagged as being affected isn't. Certainly operations do trigger the entire score to laid out again, like say, select all then transpose an octave and back. So that can be a way to clear up any such temporary glitches. And again, once you have precise steps to reproduce the problem, we can begin investigating.
In reply to If you can give precise… by Marc Sabatella
Relayout is what MuseScore does after every edit in theory ;-)
In reply to Relayout is what MuseScore… by Jojo-Schmitz
Ah - so it's "re layout" rather than "relay out"!
Makes sense now.
In reply to Ah - so it's "re layout"… by dave2020X
Indeed ;-)
In reply to Indeed ;-) by Jojo-Schmitz
Yet curiously I have another instance of this "problem" today. After using a colour change on an element in a score. Closing and reopening MS did not fix the issue.
In reply to Yet curiously I have another… by dave2020X
Then it is not a relayout issue