HOW TO SET MAXIMUM DISTANCE BETWEEN BARRED NOTES; HOW TO RIGHT JUSTIFY AT END OF EACH SCORE
I write hymn music in shape notes. The style I am used to bars notes over a single word, and leaves other notes unbarred. Being a novice Musescore user, I can not figure out how to set a universal maximum distance between only barred notes. See song below for example of how odd it looks.
Also, is there a way in the general style that the words under the last note of each score would be right justified without a huge gap being automatically placed before the prior word? Right now I'm offsetting the words manually
If there are other forums that answer the above, please advise. I couldn't find them.
Thanks.
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I'm not the one to help you, but no one can download the score you attached. You need to upload the score that does not start with the . and end with the ,
Sorry, try this file. Thanks.
Regarding #1:
You're talking about measure 3, right. If so, I don't think you can do what you want to, except change the word "Through" on the first note of the measure. MuseScore automatically leaves a space after the word before the next note (which is what you want 99.999% of the time), so for the long word, the second quaver (re in S and fa in T) has to be moved to position it one space after the end of "Through". I know of no way around it. If nobody else can give you a workaround, maybe you can open a feature request here: https://musescore.org/en/project/issues/musescore, describing exactly what you need and, if possible, giving an actual score example.
Regarding #2:
I don't know. Maybe one of the more experienced users can chime in.
The issues with the long syllable "through" forcing the next note to be spaced too widely is a limitation of the current layout algorithm you would have to adjust manually - use the "Horizontal offset" in the "Chord" section of the Inspector. MuseScore 3 will have an improved layout algorithm that handles this automatically.
BTW, the reaosn this is noticeable here is that you forced the lyric to be left-aligned even though the standard would be for it to be centered. I guess you did it because it is the first word of the line. Maybe this is how shape music does it, but it's not how standard notation does it.
As for right justifying, that's also non-standard, so there is no specific option to get any particular behavior. Right now, right-justifying aligns the right edge of the lyric with the left edge of the note, which is the right thing for certain use cases but not for yours. So I would simply moving the lyric over 2sp or whatever, which I guess is what you are doing.