A selector for spatium in the toolbar.
If I have to change the spatium it's always a pain to find the setting where to change it. I often have to google for it and still do not find it as it is not available via the "style" menu from where you do most settings of this kind. (Size of texts, distances, ...). So I usually search there for a spatium-setting and can't find it.
I think it would be worth to put a spatium-setting directly in the menu-bar (like the zoom-setting). This is such a cool feature, that it should be accessible more easily. Parallel it could be additionally placed somewhere inside the "style" menu (i.e. page-settings-partiture, scores or page or all of them). I'd have no problem to find this setting in multiple places as it is so very fundamental and important.
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I would agree that right clicking an item would allow you to always go to the dialog box that will allow you to change its settings. For example, right-clicking on the page should bring up the Style->General... dialog with Page selected, right-clicking a decrescendo would bring up the same dialog with hairpins selected and so forth.
I'm not sure exactly which distance you are trying to alter when you say the saptium. What text and what distance are you trying to change.
In reply to I would agree that right… by mike320
Layout -> Page Settings -> Scaling where the word 'spatium' was (formerly) used for 'staff space'.
In reply to Layout -> Page Settings ->… by Jm6stringer
I'm using a german version and it's still called "spatium" there.
In reply to I'm using a german version… by Palmstroem_
Indeed as it is the technical term in German and "Notenzeilenzwischenraum" is way to long
Changing the staff space would normally be very rare - something you normally do only when initially setting up the score and then leave alone from there, unless maybe you tweak before printing. Are you perhaps using this rather than the zoom setting, which would be the more usual way of temporarily making things bigger or smaller?
In reply to Changing the staff space… by Marc Sabatella
For me it's typically the second usecase. I write the score in any default template (usually choir). Then I try to get the score nicle on some view pages.