Pagination in Score Window
I'm curious why using simple OS keys such as PgDn give such varied results. I realize that I complicate life for Europeans because I use North American Letter size as my default page size, but that really shouldn't be a big issue. I find that if I reduce the score window to 84% it works more consistently, but the program itself really should automatically size itself to the paper size being used (including the thumbnail view at the bottom.) If I don't make all these adjustments, the pages will bounce all over the place going out of view in surprisingly odd ways... I realize A4 is the standard generally used in the music publishing industry, but there are a lot of folks this side of the Atlantic to consider...
Thanks,
Ian
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"I realize A4 is the standard generally used in the music publishing industry"
I'm a huge supporter of international standards, and as a Brit I have been using A5 / A4 / A3 standard paper sizes since the 1970s. I simply don't understand why the USA hasn't yet embraced the metric system. But... A4 doesn't suit everyone, because it's sometimes regarded as too small for orchestral use. And yes, Letter format would also be "too small" in that context!
However you have a reasonable complaint, because other paper sizes (e.g. Letter) should also be supported. Not just supported by MuseScore but also by PDF viewers and by our home printers. So can you give us "steps to reproduce", with a sample score? If this is a genuine problem, any user of MuseScore should be able to see the problem and log a bug on Github (free account required):
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues
You wrote:
...the pages will bounce all over the place going out of view in surprisingly odd ways...
If you truly wish to go PgDn (i.e., to the next page) - and alleviate the "bouncing" from top of page to bottom of page - press Ctrl and PgDn at the same time. Same thing works for PgUp.
I don't find that PgDown "bounce[s] all over the place going out of view in surprisingly odd ways". I find that it goes down (or up for PgUp) by a bit less than one screen's worth. That's fairly common in other applications as well: I know that Micro$oft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint do the same. So do most browsers.