Keeping score to 8 bars no one seems to answer this?
I'm writing on on the string quartet template and I cant keep it to stay on 8 bars per row?
if I select 8 bars and press return then it puts it into a system of 8. When I select the next 8 and press return it puts a one bar for a whole line? People say on previous posts go to style and edit general? this makes no sense to me as I don't seem to have an option that has anything to do with bar per row?
This is very frustrating and seems some such a simple thing. I just want the score to stick to 8 bars per line. Is that not possible?
Thank you
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Well, in "Style/General style..." there are many settings that have in influence on how many measures fit into a system, but there are other and more important settings, basically most of the settings in "Layout/Page settings...", first the Space setting, then page width and orientation, then page borders
In reply to Well, in "Style/General… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you for your reply.
Page settings doesn't give me anything about bars per line or systems it just gives me margin sizes etc. How would I use that to determine bars in a system?
In reply to Thank you for your reply… by back2shacktri1
OK spoke to soon. Ive just worked it out! Just takes a little more patience !
Thank You
In reply to Thank you for your reply… by back2shacktri1
There's also Edit/Tools/Add,Remove System breaks, which sets the maximum of measures per system
To be clear: there is no one settings that controls number of bars per line, because the number of bars on a line depends on several different factors. MuseScore will fits as many bars as it can given your current settings. If you want more bars on some system than will actually fit, you simply need to change one or more of those settings, but only you know which will produce the results you find most pleasing. Want to make the overall staff size a bit smaller? Use Layout / Page Settings / Staff space. Want to keep things the same size but squeeze notes closer together on certain measures to make them narrower? Select them and use Layout / Decrease Layout Stretch. Want to reduce the note spacing globally? Go to Style / General / Measure and play with settings like "Spacing" and "Minimum note distance". Any of these will have the effect of potentially allowing more measures to fit on a system.
It's not unlike the situation with a word processor, if you are trying to fit more words on a line - there is no single "word per line" settings, but by playing with font sizes, character spacing, margin sizes, etc, you can get the result you want.