Trouble achieving desired staff spacing.
I have a very trivial problem but I'm forced to post and ask it, because after reading other topics, I couldn't find a trick that would help. I'm trying to decrease the distance between the left/right hand of the piano (treble/bass clef). I have no dynamics and other information there, so I don't want a lot of space there, it looks not professional and silly. Scaling is not an option because I only want that space to be smaller, not anything else. All the "staff distance" and other parameters in the edit > page category don't do a darn thing.
Help is appreciated,
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You need to change the "grand staff distance", see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/layout-and-formatting-0#style-edit-ge…
In reply to You need to change the "grand by Jojo-Schmitz
This is exactly it. The only one I din't try and the only one that does something.
But If I'd like to do this to a certain page only? Or a certain line / part. How do I proceed?
Thanks a bunch
In reply to This is exactly it. The only by KenKeff
Apply a spacer, see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/breaks-and-spacers
In reply to Apply a spacer, see by Jojo-Schmitz
Unfortunately, that currently doesn't work to decrease the space, only to increase it. There has been some work done on this, but nothing has been added to the MuseScore code yet: #61041: Negative staff spacer
In reply to This is exactly it. The only by KenKeff
You can't currently *decrease* staff distances for a single system. So what you would do instead is set the default distance to be something that is as small as you need it, nd then *increase* the distance in other systems where necessary using a spacer.
But if you hadn't already increased the distance using the style setting mentioned, then that should already work - you wouldn't normally ever want less space than that. Published music rarely decreases the staffg distance beyond the standard nominal amount for the score. So perhaps there is something special / unusual going on in your score causing the spacing to be unusually larger (like you accidentally entered invisible lyrics or something). If you post the score, we can see what you are talking about and help better.