How to make 4 measures per line??? Newbie frustration :(
Maybe I'm doing something terribly wrong, but every time I try to make a new basic 1 page 4/4 score with 32 measures, the measures all end up on two lines. And they are super small and not easy to work with. Unless I choose "My first score", which is how I'd like it to turn out.
Could anybody please explain how to make a new score that'll turn out like "my first score"
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Hello and welcome,
See: https://musescore.org/en/node/42631#line-breaks
In reply to Hello and welcome, See: by cadiz1
Just what I needed! Thank you!
When trying to put a set number of measures on a line, keep in mind that measures get wider the more notes there are in them. If you have a simple piece with the occasional 16th note, you might be able to force 4 measures per line, but once you put a certain number of notes in the measure, it will grow to the point that it will not accommodate 3 additional measures on the line. Other things that affect the width of the measure are accidentals, time changes and so forth. You can attempt to shrink a slightly wide measure by selecting all the measures on the line and pressing { several times to see if that makes them narrow enough.
In Musescore 1, you were able to set how many measures on a line that you wanted. However, Musescore 2 doesn't seem to have this feature. :(
In reply to In Musescore 1, you were able by Vinyl_Record
To break lines every X (select number) measures, see:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/tools#line-breaks
In reply to In Musescore 1, you were able by Vinyl_Record
To be clear: MuseScore 1 did *not* have any feature that forced a given number of mueasres per system. It only allowed you to specify a *maximum*. So if you specified four measures, you wouldn't get *more* than four, but you might still get only two or three on some systems if they were too full to fit four. The new "add/Remove Line Breaks" facility is just a much more flexible way to achieve the exact same result. It also won't force *more* measures to fit then the number you state, but will make sure you don't get *more* than that. It's much more flexible, though, in that it doesn't force you to do this on an all-or-nothing basis. So if you want the first system to have more measures to account for the pickup, or a system with voltas to have more measures, or to force one system to have fewer so the next rehearsal letter starts on a new line, etc, you can do this easily.
In reply to To be clear: MuseScore 1 did by Marc Sabatella
I believe it is the other way round, MuseScore 1 could be told to force an exact number of measures into a system (with pretty bad consequences for the layout if those don't fit, this was the reason to remove that setting), MuseScore 2 sets a max. number of measures with the added system breaks. MuseScore 1 had that too, as a plugin, but MuseScore 2 has this built in.
In reply to I believe it is the other way by Jojo-Schmitz
No, the old 1x setting to specify number of measures per line did *not* force more measures to fit than actually allowed by your current settings. Only reducing stretch could do that. I just tried again with a portable version to verify this.
I think you may be thinking of the "Fix measure width" option which was indeed removed in part on account of the issue you mention.
In reply to No, the old 1x setting to by Marc Sabatella
Ah, yes, right. The dialog text though claimed to force a fixed number of measures.