Space notes evenly across a measure

• Feb 24, 2019 - 04:11

Is there a way to space notes 'evenly' across a measure -- visually? For example, if I have a bar with with six instruments and tuplets of 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, with accidentals, the placement of the notes is dependent upon where notes are in other parts, as in traditional scores. I thought I read a command that would allow each part to have its own [equal] spacing.


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In reply to by mike320

Thank you. Please look at Trumpet 1 in m 3-5.


Also:
When I close the file, I get a system message saying that MuseScore unexpectedly quit.

Date/Time: 2019-02-24 11:36:13.997 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.14.3 (18D109)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: E646E8BA-E4C2-01BC-D107-10F5754237F1

Time Awake Since Boot: 2300 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000010
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process: exc handler [1279]

VM Regions Near 0x10:
-->
__TEXT 0000000109175000-000000010a02e000 [ 14.7M] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/MuseScore 3.app/Contents/MacOS/mscore

Application Specific Information:
Calling windowShouldClose: on the delegate for the QNSWindow 0x600002fbfe00

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In reply to by mike320

Yes!! That's it. I was quite sure I had read this somewhere but couldn't find the 'musescore' word that was used. A possible addition to the documentation could be a thesaurus. The Table of Contents with v.3 is a good start, but I need to figure out that a hairpin is a line rather than a dynamic, or beat spacing is layout.

Again Mike. many thanks for your guidance through these matters.

In reply to by kevin.austin@v…

It's not easy. You kind of have to force it, then it still won't be perfect. Use an unused voice, like voice 4 and fill it with the shortest rest for the note you'll be using. You can then make the voice invisible by selecting everything in it and pressing V. The imperfection will be seen when you enter an accidental and an unavoidable space will be added. Other things like time and key signatures will affect this also.

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