How to center measurements in the center of the page
Hi !
I would like to be able to perfectly center measures in the middle of my A4 pages. I am using the stretch/shrink tool for measures, but I can't seem to align them exactly in the center of the page; they are either too far to the left or the right... Strangely, Musescore, for similar measures, arbitrarily gives more space to one measure than another.
Thanks !! :)
Benoit
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Just set the left and right margins to be the same. Stretching and shrinking measures will not make the staves start or end anywhere other than the margins.
For more details about how to adjust page layout see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/formatting
In reply to Just set the left and right… by SteveBlower
I'm sorry but I don't understand, I didn't touch the left and right margins, they are the same. I don't understand your phrase : "Stretching and shrinking measures will not make the staves start or end anywhere other than the margins."
Concretely, what is the solution so that the measures are necessarily centered in the middle of the page? If this is possible on musescore...
In reply to I'm sorry but I don't… by benoit.baudrin
Did you follow that link I included? Did you see the bit about margins? https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/page-layout-concepts#margin
If the left margin is, for example, 15 mm and the right margin is 15 mm then the system should start 15 mm from the left edge of the paper and end 15 mm from the right edge if the paper - i.e. centred between the left and right edges of the paper. If you have the indent first system option selected (selected is the default) then the first measure will start further from the left edge if the paper than the margin distance, but all other staves should start and end at the margin. Also note that the system length will include any stave labels. i.e. the label starts on the left margin. The stave itself would then start further to the right.
If that is not happening for you then there seems to be something "special" about your score that is not allowing it to happen, So please attach it (the .mscz file) so that someone can see what it is that is "special"