Two measures that refuse to be compressed into one line.
I have two measures that should easily fit into one line, but I cannot get them to compress using ctrl-[ .
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I am running MuseScore 2.2 under Windows 10.
-David
Comments
Select those two measures and press { which is Shift-[ or from the menu: Layout / Decrease Layout Stretch.
Ctrl-[ would not work (unless you have modified your keyboard shortcuts). Also there must be something selected (e.g. a measure) to apply the action.
In reply to Select those two measures… by .m.i.r.o.
Thank you .m.i.r.o. I had the wrong shortcut key combo, and I did not realize that compress would work across multiple measures.
![MuseScore measure compressed.jpg]( "MuseScore measure compressed.jpg")
That looks much better.
Hard to know for sure form just a picture - attaching the actual score is usually preferable. But my geuss is you accidentally increased stretch a ton. First step would be to just reset it - Layout / Reset Layout Stretch. And then if they still don't fit, start using "{" (not Crl+{) to decrease stretch - but I very much double that will be necessary. If you still have problems, do attach the score and we can assist better.
In reply to Hard to know for sure form… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks, Marc. I was using ctrl-[ instead of shift-[, and I was selecting one measure at a time instead of both measures. Once I corrected those two mistakes, compress worked as expected.
The original score segment was not stretched at all. That was just the way that MuseScore decided to break that line. I don't know why. The rest of the score breaks the way one would expect.
In reply to Thanks, Marc. I was using… by dddiam
If you attach the score, we can tell you easily why it broke that way. Could be style settings, could be something invisible taking up space, etc.