Horisontal frame to section end

• Jan 4, 2018 - 17:05

I have tried for hours to append a horisontal frame to section end rather than to end of score. Just one bar in the last row and it stretches all over the page width. Ugly... :-(

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• Jan 4, 2018 - 17:10

"Append" in MuseScore indeed means to the end of the score. You want "Insert" instead. As in, select the first measure after where you want the frame, then use "Insert" to add the frame in front. Then adjust the line breaks if needed to make sure the frame ends one system and the next measure starts another.

If you need further assistance, please attach your score and describe what you are trying to do in more detail.

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• Jan 4, 2018 - 17:36

As I said, you also may need to adjust the line breaks. You currently have both a page and a section break right on that last measure of the first section. You don't want that; you want the break to appear after the horizontal frame, not after the measure. So delete the breaks from the last measure of the section and add them instead to the frame that follows. Right now you have only a single frame there, you probably actually want two - one at the end of the first section, one at the beginning of the second. But that's up to you - some people like to use frames to indent the beginnings of movements, and I'm guessing that is what you are trying to do.

So, to summarize:

1) remove the breaks
2) select the existing frame you have at the beginning of the second section
3) insert horizontal frame
4) add breaks to the newly inserted frame

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• Jul 28, 2024 - 05:51

I hope it's okay to resurrect this thread. I am also encountering a similar issue and the solution you suggest isn't working, at least not to the extent I understand it, and I might be misunderstanding.

There's a horizontal frame at the end of the first movement for both parts. The frame at the end of the "editorial" part will eventually be zero thickness, and the one at the end of the "original" part is the width it needs to be. (The "editorial" and "original" designations are visible in the tabs.) I added the horizontal frames, then put the section break onto the frame. As you can see, the start of the 2nd mvt looks fine in "original", but in "editorial", the break has jumped to the first bar of the second movement. How do I fix this?

I've attached the file.

Thanks!

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Duetto in F, SC 9 (RS 3.7 2 Lute RSS).mscz 130.89 KB

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• Jul 29, 2024 - 03:39

Okay, seen. Maybe there's an issue with horizontal frames and section breaks, I don't really remember. Or something else I missed. But there's another way.
So, instead of using these frames (remove them first), use the “Stretch” function twice (menu Format / Stretch / Decrease Layout Stretch) after selecting measures 13 and 14 of the ‘Original Lute’.
The effect on the layout is the same.
Now: 3Duetto in F, SC 9 (RS 3.7 2 Lute RSS).mscz

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• Jul 29, 2024 - 04:40

Decrease Layout Stretch! Brilliant. It worked perfectly. Thank you.

Of course, I'm using Evolution because of the instability issues I'd encountered doing intensive tablature work in MuseScore 4.x. Thank you for steering me in that direction. So if this is a bug there, I don't know if anybody would be interested in fixing it. But it doesn't matter. The issue is solved this way. Merci bien!

In the meantime, do you happen to know whether there's a newer iteration of Evolution for which the playback now works in Mac? I'm unable to hear my work played back to me, so I can only hope I caught any tablature mistakes on a purely visual basis!

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