Any ideas on formatting
I'm trying to finalise quite a long piece and having big issues with formatting. Photo 1 shows the opening...as you can see the triplets are all different sizes. After I try to adjust them, the bar expands to fill the whole width of the page for 5 beats. When this happens I cannot adjust the width of a bar using the "{" and "}" keys .... the bar width now seems fixed.
Whenever this happens many of the text entries move throughout the whole score...expression marks and tempo markings end up in margins etc.
It really is driving me round the bend!
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Why not attach your score here, because that will help the experts to suggest a solution. Pictures on their own don't convey a lot of information, but a score (.mscz file) contains a lot of layout constraints which are visible in the Inspector.
In reply to Why not attach your score… by DanielR
I think the real problem is that I can't find a way to get more than two bars per line.....so the whole score is 62 pages long!!!!
Also shy about showing work in progress....this is supposed to be a musical representation of a scene from the novel Brave New world!
In reply to I think the real problem is… by StuMacWilson
Better? 1Cabaret_first revision.mscz
In reply to Better? [inline:1Cabaret… by cadiz1
Much!
What did you do??
I'm also realising that bigger sheets of paper are usually used for small ensembles!
In reply to Much! What did you do?? I'm… by StuMacWilson
"What did you do??"
What @cadiz1 did was to reduce the Scaling, so that the notes are not so crowded.
Menu option: Format > Page Settings...> Scaling > Stave space > reduce from 1.750 to 1.350
How do people think this looks?? It's supposed to be a music to go with a stage setting of a scene (one of three) from Brave New World (lyrics from book). There are quotes from the scene in the score. It probably won't mean much to people who haven't read the novel.
Things I've learned...
1 The scaling setting is important!
2 Use the continuous mode more
3 Use bigger paper
4 Set up the line lengths and pagination yourself....makes it a lot easier.
Don't comment on actual music....too late and examiners will do that anyway!