Page Management

• Feb 27, 2024 - 19:16

I recently started using MuseScore after years of using Sibelius and have been really impressed with how robust the software is. I'm still learning and had a simple (or perhaps not so simple) question about managing stave placement. The choir director I work with had pasted some poor image-quality antiphons together, mix-matched from different books, which I transcribed into MuseScore for better readability.

In the MuseScore document, the score spans two pages--there was a lot of white space between staves. Exporting the score to PNGs, I was able to lay them out to fit on one sheet instead of two (see PDF). Is this something I could have accomplished in MuseScore, instead of the hassle of laying out PNGs separately? I tried a lot of things in MuseScore to accomplish this after searching through the manual and previous forum posts, including changing staff properties and style settings, but was never able to reached a solution. Perhaps this is not possible, in which case I'd feel less dumb for not figuring it out.

Thanks for any help, there's no urgency, but if I can learn something here, I'd appreciate it,
Joe

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Parce Domine.pdf	332.31 KB
Parce Domine.mscz	37.26 KB

Comments

underquark

• Feb 28, 2024 - 01:07

First thing to do is to remove any System or Page breaks. Then decide whether to reduce the spacing between staves (adjusted in Format >Style) or reduce the scaling (which shrinks the size of everything visually). You will need to experiment to get the result that best suits you.

Mr Fox

• Feb 28, 2024 - 08:02

For your layout its better not to remove the line breaks but try changes in page and style settings as page margins and system distances.
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/score-size-and-spacing

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Parce Domine_1.mscz	40.88 KB

jsartori

• Feb 28, 2024 - 23:05

Thanks for the help and pointing me in the right direction, Mr. Fox. I assumed the line breaks weren't the problem and now I know what to tweak if I run into this type of thing again,
Joe

Jojo-Schmitz

• Feb 28, 2024 - 08:29

Just 2 changes away from the defaults

Format > Page settings > Scaling > Space > 1.75 -> 1.65
Format > Style > Lyrics > Min. distance below 1.5 -> 1.0

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Parce Domine_0.mscz	38.15 KB

jsartori

• Feb 28, 2024 - 23:01

Thank you very much for the speedy reply and fix! I spent too much time toying with other settings...now I'll know where to go next time. And thanks for your contributions to this community--I've learned a lot of tips from your forum posts!
Joe