Optimise the screen space for large scores - remove the toolbar and headers
Today I tried to look at the score which somebody had posted - see https://musescore.com/thelightoi/the-wild-land#comment-5738148 This is a very pleasant piece, but hard to follow on the screen because of the way the screen space is somewhat wasted.
It has at least 20 staves. On my Mac laptop it was very difficult to manage, and I tried several different views.
Maybe at 25% magnification it would have just about fiteed on, but at 50% it didn't, though it was legible.
Several improvements could be made, including:
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Remove all unncessary headings, toolbars, tabs etc. when viewing a score. This might be platform dependent. On Macs additional system headers could be removed as the system can restored them by a gesture if needed.
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Allow 30% and 40% magnifications - (or maybe arbitrary ones) - as these might just about be legible. The user could decide what level would work.
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Improve the vertical scolling so that the bars playing are tracked more centrally.
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Remove the white space at the top of the score. This might be nice for a small score with not too many instruments, but it's unnecessary for one with many stave lines.
Much more attention to spacing for laptop use would be helpful. My machine has a retina display.
Comments
1) You can set up a custom workspace in which all of those are unchecked. Combine it with full screen mode for maximal screen usage. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/workspaces
2) You can type any zoom percentage into that field and press enter to apply it.
4) This should be entirely dependent on the page margin and settings of the score.
In reply to You can set up a custom… by jeetee
I looked at and for this with optimism. Unfortunately I still couldn't get rid of the toolbar or the other headers.
Is this platform dependent? I'm using Macos.
In reply to I looked at and for this… by dave2020X
Let's try the following:
1. Make sure MuseScore is closed
2. Save the attachment to "
~/Library/Application\ Support/MuseScore/MuseScore3/"3. Rename it to remove the ".txt" extension. I've only added it to be able to upload the file here to the forum
For me, the result looks as follows when choosing that workspace in MuseScore (I'm on windows):
![311544-playback-workspace.png]( "311544-playback-workspace.png")
Then I use the "View → Full Screen" option
In reply to Let's try the following: 1… by jeetee
If you want, you can remove the toolbar with the playback controls as well; and then switch workspaces back using the View menu as well for a bit more real estate.