Problem creating a fixed-width Horizontal Frame

• Feb 1, 2014 - 03:13

I have searched for hours for a solution to a particular problem I'm having. I have been through the handbook, through the forum, through YouTube videos, and anywhere else I can think of. For some reason, I cannot seem to overcome what appears to be a straightforward issue. Thanks for any help you can offer.

I have 5 measures spread across the width of a page. See attached 'before.mscz'. I am looking at the last line.

The very last measure is to become a Coda so I want to create a space (Horizontal Frame?) between the last measure and the preceding 4 measures. See attached 'wanted.jpg'. I will then add some text in the required gap that you see.

I assume that I am supposed to create a Horizontal Frame before the last measure so I select Create > Bars > Insert Horizontal Frame. Immediately, all measures on the line are shrunk and jammed against the left-side of the page. See the attached 'after default.mscz'.

As I stretch the Horizontal Frame, the last measure moves towards the right of the page but all the 4 preceding measures remain shrunken and bunched up on the left-side of the page. See attached 'after stretched.mscz'.

I have tried breaks, spacers, stretching, thresholds and everything else I can thing of but, no matter what I do, I cannot get the formatting I want. What am I doing wrong? Please put me out of my misery :)

Thank you for listening.

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• Feb 1, 2014 - 03:44

The attachments seem missing. But based on your description, I'm guessing you haven't yet discovered the "last system fill threshold" setting in Style / Edit General Style / Page. This controls whether the last system is stretched to the right margin or not. Sounds like you want this stretch but aren't getting it, so lower the threshold.

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• Feb 1, 2014 - 04:42

Marc, you are the man. That is exactly what the problem was. I was setting the "last system fill threshold" to 100% because (intuitively?) I thought that meant that it would fill 100% of the page width. I don't quite understand why, but I now know that I need to do the complete opposite and actually set it to 0% - and that worked. Anyway, thank you. I really love the software and, considering how fast your reply came, I'd say support was fantastic too. I cannot believe that it is all free. That is incredible. Thank you again, Rob

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• Feb 1, 2014 - 17:15

The Threshold doesn't say how much to fill the last system - it says, how full does the system have to be before it fills. The fill itself is all or nothing. So a fill threshold of 100% says, only fill the last system if it is at least 100% full - which is to say, if it is less than 100% full, it won't fill. So that disabled fill. A fill threshold of 0% says, fill the last system if it is at least 0% full - which is to say, if it has anything at all (which of course it does) then it will fill.

A value of 50% says, if it it at least half full already, then fill it the rest of the way. Otherwise, leave it alone.

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