bar numbering
: I like to add bar numbering to any music I enter. I go to "format" then "style" then to "bar numbering" on the menu that pops up and enter my requirements. If I move the menu down on the screen so I can see the music, the numbers are there as I want the. However, as soon as I exit the menu, they go away. Why is this and how do I keep them there?
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Did you use the OK button and save the file?
In reply to Did you use the OK button… by Shoichi
There is No OK button on the screen
In reply to There is No OK button on the… by adrian5
What version of MuseScore are you using (The latest stable version is 3.6.2 https://musescore.org/en/download ), on what OS?
In reply to What version of MuseScore… by Shoichi
my wife found the arrow in the top left hand corner of the page and reduced it in size so that the OK button was visible. I pressed OK and it saved. Thanks for your help.
In reply to my wife found the arrow in… by adrian5
;-)
In reply to There is No OK button on the… by adrian5
There sure is, but the dialog might be bigger than your screen. The Return key would be the same as the OK button the Esc key the same as Cancel
In reply to There is No OK button on the… by adrian5
It's a sort-of-common problem for operating systems to communicate the screen resolution to MuseScore incorrectly, causing it to draew things too large. If you view a score at 100%, is it the same size as a piece of paper, or is it larger? Does anything else look unusually large on your system? What OS are you on? Depending on your answers, we can show you how best to fix this.
In reply to It's a sort-of-common… by Marc Sabatella
If anything, it is all too small (except the style menu which is now adjusted and fixed. A score at 100% is uncomfortably small, so i use 150%. It needs to be 200% to be A4 sized. All the words and symbols in the tool bar went very small when I "repaired" recently, although no repairs were needed. I am on Windows 9. It is only that I am so familiar with musescore that I can work around them. At a guess, I would say they are 6 point.
In reply to If anything, it is all too… by adrian5
Interesting, I don't know that I've seen cases where everything else is too small but the style dialog is too big. Is the display itself unusually small?
You say Windows 9, but there is no such thing - maybe you mean 8? or 10? In 10 at least, you can try using Explorer to navigate to the MuseScore installation folder (typically in C:\Program Files\MuseScore 3), then finding the "bin" folder within that, and then finding the ".exe" file for MuseScore. Right-click it, Properties, Compatibility, and try different settings for the various high DPI options, restarting MuseScore after each attempt. Often one will trick Windows into reporting the display resolution more correctly, which in turn will cause MuseScore to display sized more correctly.
In reply to Interesting, I don't know… by Marc Sabatella
Sorry, it is Windows 10 Pro. The palettes usually to the left of the music have now disappeared. I can get the Master Palette up with shift F9.
In reply to Sorry, it is Windows 10 Pro… by adrian5
F9 will reopen the palettes. Or, if you had previously undocked them and now they are floating offscreen, you can try help / revert to factory settings. There is also a “reset dialog positions” plugin you can download, install, and run if you have lots of customizations you’d rather not lose.
In reply to F9 will reopen the palettes… by Marc Sabatella
I have done that and bar numbering has now disappeared and is replaced by measure numbers which seems to work the same way. The numbers are very small and I can really only read them at 400%. Is there a way to make them bigger?
In reply to I have done that and bar… by adrian5
Via Inspector or Format/Style/Text Styles.
In reply to I have done that and bar… by adrian5
Measure and bar mean the same thing; measure is just the standard Amercian term while bar is the standard UK term. If you did a factory reset, perhaps it changed your language setting? You can change it back in Edit / Preferences / General.
Measure numbers are meant to be small so they don't interfere with the notes in your score, but if you have a normal-sized score, they should still be perfectly readable (the default is 8 pt). And also, the factory reset shouldn't have changed anything at all about any of your scores - only the program settings. Are you saying one of your scores looks different than before? If so, please attach that score so we can understand better. Also maybe attach a screenshot so we can understand what you are seeing.
As mentioned, you can change size or other properties of most elements by using the Inspector, then hit the "set as style" button ("S" icon) to make that the default for the whole score.
In reply to Measure and bar mean the… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks again Marc. I realise bar and measure are the same thing, but thought it bizarre that bar should change to measure just as I am raising these queries. I don't know what you mean by "the Inspector", but I went to format/style and then right to the bottom to set styles and made various things bigger. I do note that when I right click on the top tool bar one of the boxes that comes up is "Inspector", which is ticked. However, none of that relates to the size of type on the tool bars etc. they used to be quite legible, but are now tiny. I seem to be unable to take a screen shot of the menus and tool bars.
In reply to Thanks again Marc. I realise… by adrian5
The Inspector is what you ee on th right side of screen, unless you previously closed it. If you did, reopen it from the View menu. But thius only affects your score, not toolbars.
The type on the toolbars is what I was saying sometimes is wrong if your OS lies about the screen resolution And that's why I gave suggestions on how to fix that. Whiich of those suggestions did you try?
In reply to The Inspector is what you ee… by Marc Sabatella
I went to help and reset to factory. The musescore screen is now legible on my right screen, but when i move it across to my left screen, it goes small again. I guess I just use it on my right screen now. I have never had anything change size when I moved from one screen to another before. Truly weird. Just as well it's a great program!
In reply to I went to help and reset to… by adrian5
So you're using 2 screens with very different resolution and DPI.
In reply to So you're using 2 screens… by Jojo-Schmitz
I don't think the resolution is different. I use them both for photographic work. they do not have different DPI. I have been using musescore since version 2. This problem only started in the last 2 days.
In reply to I don't think the resolution… by adrian5
Could be a driver updated in your OS, or something else changed the resolution or scaling settings for them. But yeah, one way or another, your OS is telling MuseScore something not right about the resolution. You might need to go into the settings for those displays and poke around to see if you can figure anything out. And you may need to add "-D xxx" to the command line used to start MuseScore, where "xxx" is actual display resolution of the desired monitor.
In reply to I don't think the resolution… by adrian5
So these are 2 identical screens, same X*Y, same DPI, same scaling?