Assistance Needed (FIRST POST)
I am preparing several volumes of early music transcriptions (pre 1600) and have some questions. This is my first time posting to the forum; I've searched the topics but couldn't find everything I needed. Hopefully, someone can help me:
1) Is there an easy ossia tool that I'm not finding?
2) How does one insert a compound time signature (inclusive of the early music time signatures already present within MuseScore). See attachment: I would like the time change to also be marked with 3.
3) Is there a way to count the total number of notes? Am I missing where this is?
4) Is there a plugin or series of settings that can normalize (make consistent) all stem lengths, as well as space notes/chords horizontally within a measure to look more professionally typeset? I don't want to mess with manually editing individual events. See attachment where spacing is odd. I have several hundred scores and am wondering if a plugin is what is needed.
5) Is it possible to scale a time signature to make it larger? See the same attachment: I wish to make this larger by at least 40-50%.
Thanks everyone!
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Comments
for 1: https://musescore.org/en/node/46236
be patient, will come other answers.
Welcome on board.
ad 3) There used to be a plugin, https://musescore.org/en/project/scorestats, but this is for 1.x only, hasn't been ported to 2.x
ad 4) I don't see any odd alignment, longer notes cause wider gaps to next note than shorter notes.
ad 5) This is possible in the latest nightly builds, so will be in the next major release.
For #1, the instructions given in the article linked above are about the best that exists now. Depending on the specifics, it might be easier to just add it as a graphic, though - use the Image Capture tool (right side of toolbar) to take a snapshot of the measure as entered into a scratch staff or score, then insert the image where you want it.
2) See the Handbook under Time Signature to learn what options exist. Basically, right click a time signature and selecting Time Signature Properties brings up a dialog that will be your friend.
3) You mean, like hit a button and it tells you your score contains 173 notes? Nothing like that currently. Sounds like a job for a plugin, I guess - I can't imagine such a feature being of general use to many people. Unless I am misunderstanding something.
4) RThe defaults should already follow standard engraving practice to as large an extent as we are currently capable of. Not sure what you are are seeing as problematic in the attached image, it looks correct to me. Every so often you might need to manually adjust something, but there are also Style settings to control some things if you are trying to rteproduce the look of some particular historical edition that uses defaults different from modern practice. Feel free to attach your actual score (not just a picture) and describe what you'd like to see different and we can advise.
5) time signatures come from the available fonts, if you don't like the size / appearance in one font, try a different one via Style / General.