Equidistant Staves
Hi everyone -
I am looking for a way to make the vertical spacing equidistant. Basically, I want the page to look like pre-printed staff paper that music was printed over, if that makes sense.
I have tried changing the style spacing setting with no luck. I have also manually added spacers, but the program likes to ignore my spacers.
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In reply to Remove all your spacers… by jeetee
That gets you part of the way there. If the music is for multiple instruments or voices and/or for piano, you'd also need to set the staff and grand staff distances to that same value. And also, MuseScore will still increase staff spacing as needed to avoid collisions. Since the goal is apparently to go out of one's way to mimic the results of using preprinted paper as opposed to looking more professional, maybe collisions are preferred here? Easiest way to keep the staves completely equidistant even if that involves collisions, while still resolving as many collisions as possible otherwise, would be to go to Format / Style / Score and set "Min. vertical distance" to a large negative value.
Depending on the specific non-standard result desired, you might do this instead of or in addition to the settings Format / Style / Page.
It makes sense to me, and jeetee's procedure should meet your goal.
(Shh... Just be aware that certain developer(s) might be sensitive to such non-standard formatting, especially if your score goes viral and someone remarks:
Great song, but which substandard notation software did you use? That score looks like it was written on pre-printed staff paper!)
;-)