Decrease only a few system distances
Hi everyone. I have a score that goes for three pages. I added the lyrics using the System text boxes, which works like a charm by the way, when all you're doing is adding chords to a chart!
In the attached file, I need to decrease the system distances from Letter B to the end so that the score fits on two pages. Can you help? Many thanks!
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| We Got Married In A Fever LYRICS.mscz | 13.46 KB |
Comments
If you don't want to resize the page, perhaps you should use Ctrl + L (Lyrics)
Like this?
In reply to Like this? by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks Schoichi. To use your method, I need to add notes. I only have chords. Don't think that works.
Jojo - that's exactly what I need. How did you do that ?! Many thanks :)!
In reply to Thanks Schichi. To use your… by Lee Batchelor
See: Style General/Page...
(So it seems to me)
edit
The alternative (less practical) I had prepared
In reply to Thanks Schichi. To use your… by Lee Batchelor
I added a bunch of vertical frames, set bottom distance to -6.5 and height to 0. Pretty mean trick ;-)
In reply to I added a bunch of vertical… by Jojo-Schmitz
@Jojo
Yes... a neat trick. Sort of a 'negative staff spacer'.
Question: Should the vertical frames completely disappear?
@Lee Batchelor... to actually see what Jojo did.
At height = 0, the vertical frames become completely invisible (not even a line or some some other indication to denote their positions).
To bring them out of this 'stealth mode':
1. Right click the Title Frame.
2. Select - All Similar Elements
3. Ctrl click Title Frame (to unselect it)
4. In the Inspector, Click reset value for 'Bottom gap'
5. In the Inspector, change 'Height' to a number other than zero.
Regards.
I can see several solutions:
1) use real lyrics. enter invisible notes to attach the lyrics to and go. You don't even need note for each syllable; one note per measure will do it if you use Ctrl+space between words. Now you can reduce the overall system distance, and the usual lyric handling will give you more space where needed automatically
or
2) enter lyrics as system or staff text but enter "dummy" lyrics to get the automatic system spacing to work. Ctrl+space, or probably better, a single letter but marked invisible (so you can easily edit it later)
or
3) put the lyrics in individual text frames that size according to number of lines of lyrics
In reply to I can see several solutions:… by Marc Sabatella
Wow, great ideas everyone!! I'll give these all a try. Many thanks!