make fit
Hi,
can someone please tell me how to squeeze the last staff on the first page please?
I found this: http://musescore.org/en/handbook/layout-and-formatting but i am not sure what is best.
(attached are my page settings)
Thank you!
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not without seeing the score itself
In reply to not without seeing the score by Jojo-Schmitz
oh, sorry :D
i forgot (i guess i am still asleep)
In reply to oh, sorry :D i forgot (i by aeLiXihr
Ths is a pretty busy sheet.
One option is to decrease the page upper/lower borders
Another is to decrease the space setting in the same Dialog
Additionally a vertical frame is needed as a spacer for the last line, as the regular spacer doesn't work in 1.3 when using 'hide empty staves'
Since a picture (or score) is worth a thousand words, here is my humble submission for comparison purposes.
Main areas to look at:
Layout / Page Settings -- for margins and scaling
Style / Edit General Style / Page -- for Staff distance, System distance, and Page fill threshold
Also, the two green staff spacers are used to create more space:
The first staff spacer - used to further separate the high notes on the second system with the low notes on the first system. (click on it and delete it to see its effect - you can then undo)
The second staff spacer - used for chord name* clearance with the high notes on the second staff of the second system. (click on it and delete it to see its effect - you can then undo)
I also tweaked (made smaller) the vertical frame for the title and dragged the text up a little, and changed the font of 'impovisatiedeel' to make it smaller.
*if those are chord names, be aware that you could have entered them with 'Ctrl + K', instead of using staff text. See: http://musescore.org/en/handbook/chord-name
Regards...
In reply to MS has lots of 'shoe horning' possibilities. by Jm6stringer
I just noticed your post here:
http://musescore.org/en/node/21354#comment-87033
Attached is a .pdf of the same file, if you are still having layout problems with Ubuntu. (Of course, Musescore's editing capabilities are not available with the .pdf - this is simply to view the .mscz file as most of us would see it.)
Regards...
In reply to @aeLiXihr... by Jm6stringer
Thank you a lot!
@ Jojo-Schmitz: yep, it is pretty tight.
"decrease the space setting" that would make the staffs smaller, right?
@ Jm6stringer: cool! i checked your settings. You gained the most by scaling the staffs smaller, right?
"*if those are chord names, be aware that you could have entered them with 'Ctrl + K' "
no you could not, give it a try, you will not be able to write a lower case dm. And i have other scores which cannot be "chorded" with that tool. eg. this one: http://musescore.com/user/117143/scores/128248
Attached is how far i got so far; the bottom staff could go lower but i already set the margin to 10mm so i guess i will need that frame you were mentioning...
In reply to Thank you a lot! @ by aeLiXihr
Yes, a smaller space value would shrink about everything in the score. But one step smaller, 1.564 is still big enough in my opinion and better than squezzing a score too much.
Lower case chord names will be possible in 2.0
In reply to Yes, a smaller space value by Jojo-Schmitz
thanks!
i managed to get a frame in the right spot.
But i do not seem to be able to drag all the way to my 10mil border...
In reply to thanks! i managed to get a by aeLiXihr
In Style / Edit General Style / Page -- set the 'page fill threshold' to something like 80. (You have it set to 100.)
This tells Musescore that when the page passes 80% filled, it will spread the score out to 'fill the page', up to your lower (10mm) margin.
Setting it to 100 tells Musescore not to fill the page at all, which is why oftentimes people with a high page fill threshold wonder why they have a lot of blank space at the bottom of a page.
Regards...
In reply to Page fill threshold by Jm6stringer
thanks yes i know of that function, it is however not what i am after.
I wish to drag down the lowest staff up to the page border leaving the other systems in place.
attached: i set the treshold to 90: the other systems moved down a bit and the spacer is without function now.
What i meant in my previous post is that when i start dragging the spacer the last staff is moved to the next page before the page border is reached...
thank you!
In reply to thanks yes i know of that by aeLiXihr
Are you sure? How are you measuring this? I measured it with a ruler, and it appears to be exactly 10mm from the page bottom one "click" before it moves. Here's a screen shot, in case you are seeing something very different:
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In reply to Are you sure? How are you by Marc Sabatella
Hi Marc,
yes on that file it is filled out until the border, but if i set the tresshold to 100 and drag down the spacer(which is meaningless here) the staff jumps to the next page already if there are still about 20mm left.
So if i set tresshold to 100%, doubleclick the spacer(turns blue) doubleclick the little blue square, and press [arrow down] once, the staff jumps to the next page...
I hoped to move it all the way down to the page border.
Thanks for the help!
In reply to Hi Marc, yes on that file it by aeLiXihr
OK, I see what you mean. And now that you mention it, I am pretty sure I've seen this behavior before: situations where the page fill algorithm is able to fill the page more completely than I can manually. 2.0 is pretty different in how it deals with this - no "page fill" any more, just a min & max system distance. But FWIW, I have no difficulty getting all the way to the bottom margin in 2.0.
In reply to OK, I see what you mean. And by Marc Sabatella
it seems like i will have to try to lay my hands on such a shady 2.0 copy... :?