6 bars on one line four on all others.
Hey, I used Tools- break every 4th measure to get 4 measure on each line. How can I insert two more to make 6 bars on just one line?
Thanks.
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I think insert works... sorry
Hi Enok90,
I recently found the same problem with a music which kept lefting two bars in the last page.
The solution that I found to workaround that problem was to select one or more bars in the previous page that have few notes in them, and from the menu "Scheme" keep selecting the feature "decrease stretching" until the other two bars fit in the line that I wanted.
I don´t know if I wrote right the name of the menu and feature that I was refering to, since I´m using a translated Portuguese musescore version ( the 2.0.3 ).
Maybe for better understanding I should say that as for the menu "Esquema" it´s the sixth from left to right.
And for the feature "Diminuir alongamento" inside that menu is the fourth from top to bottom.
I hope this can help you and others with the same problem.
P.S. In Sibelius program this procedure was very simple, and If by any chance anyone knows a better way to join more measures in the same line, please post it, I also would aprecciate the knowladge.
You can delete line breaks. You can also add them manually from the Breaks & Spacers palette. And, of course, you can highlight an area of the score and use the break every four measures on just that area.
In reply to You can delete line breaks. by JGitar
Hi JGitar,
Thanks for your explanation.
I already know those procedures and use them in some cases, but maybe I didn´t explain myself clearly.
What I meant , and maybe what Enok90 also meant, was for example, if you have 5 bars in a line/system and want to put 8 bars in the same line/system, using Breaks and Spacers won´t do the work, since they´re used to do what the name suggests, i.e., break and space the bars in the line/system.
I believe they´re not used to add more bars in the same line/system...
It would be nice if it existed maybe a combination of highlightening the area and shortkeys to add the bars that we wanted in the same line/system, as in Sibelius program.
Anyway, as it is this is still a great program which I´m very grateful to the developers, and which can be polished in those small details that make difference, if the user keep giving feedback to the developers.
Thanks again for your explanation and if you came to find a good way to solve this, please post it.
In reply to Hi JGitar, Thanks for your by ajnc
If you have lines breaking every five measures and want one line to be eight measures long, you can delete the line break at the end of the system, add a new one three bars later, and then use Add/Remove Line Breaks to ripple the change forward from that point.
In reply to If you have lines breaking by Isaac Weiss
Hi Isac Weiss,
Thanks for your explanation, but unfortunantly that didn´t helped me.
For example, I wanted to put in one line system 5 measures but the program after the 3rd measure broke the line automatically, didn´t put any line break sign at the end of the system and put the other two measures in a new line along with the new line break sign.
I guess maybe its due to the fact that two of the measures have lots of semiquavers (and so it makes the measures a bit long than the others)...
Anyway thanks for your help.
In reply to Hi Isac Weiss, Thanks for by ajnc
You could open Layout/Page Settings...->Page Size: A3;
The exported PDF, when printed, it will adapt to the size of paper.
Just an idea.
In reply to Hi Isac Weiss, Thanks for by ajnc
Sorry, I thought it was an issue of line breaks. If they're really too wide to fit on one line, the simplest option is to select the five measures and press [ { ] several times to reduce their stretch (this is also under the Layout menu). If this doesn't do it, there's two angles you can tackle it from: wedge all the music in the whole score closer together by reducing the spacing in Style > General... > Measure, or make everything smaller proportionally by reducing the scaling in Layout > Page Settings (this will also make the staff less tall).
In reply to Hi Isac Weiss, Thanks for by ajnc
If you are still having problems, please post the score you are having problems with so we can see what you mean. In general, though, adding breaks allows you to have fewer measures per line than would otherwise fit. If you want *more* measures per line than would otherwise fit, you will need to decrease the staff size or note spacing or both, as suggested above.