Decreasing space between staffs

• Mar 31, 2017 - 17:08

Marc,
You posted this:
"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."

Where do you re-set the "default distance." ? I've tried it in Style/Page with every margin with no change.

Thank you.

Sandy Toms


Comments

This depends on what exactly you mean by staff distances. There are different types of staff distances, controlled by different settings. Grand staff distance is the distance between the two staves of piano music. Staff distance is the distance between instruments within a system - like in a score for flute and oboe, it is the distance between those two staves throughout the score. System distance is the distance between systems - like between one flute/oboe pair and the next. Each of these can be controlled independently in the dialog you mention.

If you continue to have trouble, as always, please attach your score and describe as precisely as possible what you want to do, and it will be much easier to provide help.

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

Ok - I was trying to decrease some grand staff lines while not others on a single instrument line. I had changed every value in 'page' except "maximum system difference" which I didn't think was applicable but apparently so ! That made the difference. Then I just had to use spacer between other lines.
Thank you Marc for your response. (Do you ever get off the computer?!
Sandy

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