More Options for use of bar lines
Hi musicians,
Musescore lacks the abilitty to insert double left bar line at any measure. This feature is essential to a modern composer/writer or jazz musician.
Other notatio software like Encore, Finale, Sibelius, can do that.
I am sure i am note alone on this request.
thanks
Candido
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Welcome, maybe I did not understand, have you tried to drag from the barlines palette (select the "Advanced").
You may prepare a blank score and save it as a template.
Select a barline with a right-click> Select / All Similar Elements, open the Inspector and select the desired format
In reply to Welcome, maybe I did not by Shoichi
i will try to attach a PDF example of what i am trying to do.
In reply to i will try to attach a PDF by canserra
Thanks—I assumed you were talking about a plain double bar. Apparently, MuseScore does not support that barline (and incidentally I don't think I've seen it before, in jazz parts or no). But I'm prepared to place a bet that if you log an official feature request at https://musescore.org/en/project/issues, it will be added for the next release. ;-)
In the meantime, there is a way to fake it: press [z] to open the Symbols palette, type "barline" into the search box, and the symbol is available as "reverse final barline." You can drag it into your score and position it at the beginning of the line.
EDIT
Hint: to get it lined up exactly right, set its vertical offset in the Inspector to 4sp.
In reply to Thanks—I assumed you were by Isaac Weiss
thanks a lot...you save my day.
But why the "reverse final barline." is not present in default barline palette?
Is there a way to save it to the barline palette?
First click on the left barline and then double-click on the double barline in the palette and you will get a double barline.
In reply to First click on the left by underquark
I need the double bar line at first measure of a line. How can i do that?
In reply to I need the double bar line at by canserra
Ah, to do that you need to have a barline there in the first place. Go up to the Style menu, choose General…, and in the Barlines part of the dialog you'll find the controls to enable barlines at the beginning of staves. Click OK, and then you'll be able to change the barline as underquark described.
In reply to Ah, to do that you need to by Isaac Weiss
Hi ZackTheCardshark,
I tried this way but when you enable barlines at the beginning of staves, the bar line appears on the left side of the claf...but I want it on the right side. Is it possible?
In reply to Hi ZackTheCardshark, I tried by canserra
Having a barline like this on the right side of the clef is not standard, for jazz charts or otherwise. System barlines go to to the left of the clefs whether single or double; only repeat barlines go to the right of clefs. It's like that in all of the fakebooks and big band charts I have. Is there some unusual special circumstance that is causing you to want it otherwise?
Anyhow, you can add any symbol you like from the Symbols palette wherever you like, as mentioned above.