Spacing of stuff at top of score
I'm putting together a score combining several previous compositions. The beginning of the score is attached. As you can see, the various informational lines at the top are all sort of scrunched together. The way I want it to look is:
-more space between the top margin and the title "Celtic Suite in G Major"
- more space between that title and the next line "Music traditional, arranged by Jon Corelis"
- more space between that line and the next line, the first movement title "Music traditional, arranged by Jon Corelis"
-more space between that first movement title and the tempo/espression line that begins the score
-everything centered
This would of course involve moving at least the first staff down some to make more space for the lines.
I can do the centering OK, but can't figure out how to do the line spacing. I assume that if it can be done, you have to use the menus under Style, but I don't know what all those things mean, and they don't seem to be documented in the handbook. Are they documented anywhere, or can anyone tell me how to reformat this? Alternatively, is it possible for me to write whatever I want in MS-Word and just paste it into the top, overriding all the Musescore frames? And if I do it that way, how can I move the first staffs down? Thanks for any suggestions.
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Addendum: Or maybe I could put everything in whatever text format I wanted at the top in one of the Musescore text frames? But then how do I suppress the others and move the first staff down?
I know I can get more space between the existing lines just by clicking on them and moving them, but the problem is that there isn't enough space between the first staff and the top page margin to space the lines farther apart. So I guess a simpler way to put the problem is: how do I move the first staff down to make more space at the top?
Maybe I should also have included the information that in the whole score, I have the page fill threshold set to 100, so there isn't really enough room between staves to just move the first one down. But I suppose I could reset that to the default 70%
In reply to Addendum: Or maybe I could by jcorelis
Style>edit general style> page, there are places there to manipulate much of what you want.
In reply to If you go to by xavierjazz
Yes, I know that, but the problem is that I can't tell what all those things are. What are accolade distance and V-frame upper margin and system distance and staff distance and the others? What are the percentages specified percentages OF? What measure of distance is "sp"? This is all clear as mud, and fooling around with them doesn't tell me anything: most of the time if I change a value nothing seems to happen to the header.
In reply to Yes, I know that, but the by jcorelis
used the search function at the top right of the page here? For example, I just searched "Staff distance" and got this: http://musescore.org/en/search/apachesolr_search/system%20distance.
I can understand your frustration as it took me a long time and much work to begin to understand the myriad elements that are configurable in MuseScore, and I am still learning.
Regards,
In reply to Hi. Have you by xavierjazz
Thanks I will try that.
In reply to Thanks I will try that. by jcorelis
sometimes still, when a change is made, the screen actually doesn't refresh without a reload (File>reload). It gives an option to save.
In reply to Yes, I know that, but the by jcorelis
System distance - the distance betwen systems
Staff distance - the distance between staves
Accolade - the staves of a mutli-staff instrument like piano
Vbox - a vertical frame (eg, the box containing the title and composer info)
Percentages in the threshold are percentages of the full page height or width. So a page fill theshold of 70% means MuseScore will stretch things put to fill the page if the page is more than 70% full.
Sp is a "space" - literally the distance between staff. This is set in edit->preferences
In reply to System distance - the by Marc Sabatella
Thanks, that is helpful.
Can anyone also tell me this: if I figure out how to apply this formatting, can I apply it only to the first page of a score? In other words, have more space for stuff at the top of the first page, but not then have a big blank space at the top of succeeding pages.
In reply to Thanks, that is helpful. Can by jcorelis
Subsequent pages won't have a vbox at all. So that's your main way of making the first page differ. Make the vbox as big as you like, as play with the setting that controls the space above and below the vbox. Also the space above/below music, which is like extra space added to the top and bottom margin beofre the first staff and after the last
In reply to Subsequent pages won't have a by Marc Sabatella
Thanks again, I will try it.
In reply to System distance - the by Marc Sabatella
Do you mean the lines on a staff?
In reply to Re: sp by xavierjazz
I'm not sure I understand the question, but I think the previous reply tells me what I need to do. I just want to have as much space as I want taken up with free form text at the top of the first page without having that same amount of space be blank at the top of all the subsequent pages.
Did you figure out how to do this? None of the options I change under style - general - page move the first staff on the first page down.
In reply to Did you figure out how to do by Richard Cooke
The quickets easiest way to move the first staff down is in insert a vertical text frame and adjust it's height appropriately.
BTW, 5 year old threads are for version 1.x, so I wouldn't use them for advice.
In reply to Did you figure out how to do by Richard Cooke
This thread is more than 5 years old.
Meanwhile MuseScore has the inspector, select the frame and change its properties
In reply to Did you figure out how to do by Richard Cooke
In order for us to do more than guess at what is going on, it would help if you attached you score so we can see. In general, the "Music top margin" controls the distance from the top of the page to the first staff, if in fact the first staff is actually at the top of the page. More likely you have a frame there, in which case you want to set the margin below the frame. Either for all frames using the style setting or for that frame alone using the Insepctor.