a little help needed with layout/English notes
Hi,
I am submitting a file for a piece that I wish to print out for actual use (it is a part of a multi-part cycle), and I am almost satisfied. However, I do not know how to make the end look more natural - there are just 3 measures in the very end.
Overall, I could be almost happy with this size and layout.
Remarks about the possibility of understanding my notes about tempo, individual rhythms and such, would also be welcome (positioning, grammar, clarity, as in measures 11, 18, 94, 119, 120, 128, 136, 140 or even elsewhere).
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| KEhin_MLeppoja_tuhat polvkonda_SATB_kirj-al-20101030.mscz | 36.53 KB |
Comments
Highlight the measures (hold Shift while using the mouse), Layout> Add more stretch;
Where you entered annotations*: From the palette insert spacers.
(see attachments).
Do not worry about the response time of the program: Where there are many texts it slows down a little.
* http://musescore.org/en/node/24475
Perhaps we are seeing something for different, but I am not seeing 3 measures at the end. The final system has 7 measures - from bars 169 to the end. Also, a lot of your texts are extending right off the page for me. So I am guessing there are slight layout differences between our systems that are causing it to look different. This doesn't happen often, but I paranoid about this so for any score where I really care about the layout, I always lock it in. That is, I add explicit line breaks to the end of all systems to make sure MsueScore won't try to fit *more* measures on a system next time, then I do a global "reduce stretch" (ie, first select all) to make sure it doesn't try to fit *fewer* measures on a system next time.
Anyhow, had it come out with only three measures at the end, then depending on the size, they would either be very squished together, or stretched to fill the page. Either way, probably not what you want. I usually append a horizontal frame and then size it to take up however much space I want to the right; the measures will fill the space to the left.
Thank you for the suggestions.
Marc, yes, probably the layout that opened in your app was already different from what I had.
Breaks and stretch seem to be useful tools, and I did not even know about them. I will try to study both of your suggestions better later, but for now, I seem to have some kind of a working solution that I can use, and I just used breaks.
In reply to Thank you for the by lppoja
You may have already read through this: http://musescore.org/en/handbook
If not I suggest it - there is a lot of useful information here.
Regards,
In reply to You may have already read by xavierjazz
I have to say that I have not read the handbook, other than a couple of specific searches. But, yes, I understand that I should, it seems useful, so thank you for the reminder.