How to turn off autoplacement
OS: Windows 10 (10.0), Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 3.0.5.5992, revision: 58dd23d
Hi
I have a score where virtually all the music fits neatly onto an A4 page. However 13 instruments all requiring the crescendo (hairpins) markings moves the drum line off the page. I then decided to use the "Cresc....." marking which started to do the same thing. Ah ha, I thought, turn off auto placement in the Inspector on each marking...yipee, it saves me valuable space.
But rather than do that 13 times in the Inspector, I was wondering 1) where the global "turn off auto-placement" menu is? (its not in - or doesn't appear to be - in Edit> Preferences, or Format> Style.
and 2) will the 13 newly placed objects 'jump back' when I turn "auto placement" back on?
By the way, I have already made the score size tiny using "Scaling"
Comments
There is not currently a global setting, although there is a pending change to add one for a future release. You can also try downloading the attached style file and then loading it into your score via Format / Style / Load Style. It sets the various "autoplace min distance" style settings for the different element types to large negative values, thus allowing overlaps between the affected elements. It's the same as you can do yourself in Format / Style, but there is also a "hidden" setting minVerticalDistance that this sets to control the amount of extra space MuseScore adds between staves.
Consider, though, that if you currently have extra space being added by autoplace, then turning it off would mean everything would then collide. Not sure that's really what you'd want. Better, I think, to simply adjust the position of these hairpins, with autoplace still on so it can automatically adjust the dynamics as well, etc. If it's just one page, that is - otherwise, better to simply reduce staff size a little moire.
Feel free to attach your score if you need further assistance.
In reply to There is not currently a… by Marc Sabatella
Hi Marc and thankyou for your reply.
I really didn't want to turn off auto placement for the whole of the score. It was just for a page that contained loads of cresc markings that had moved the drum line off the page. As it was, I laboriously changed each hairpin's autoplacement to "off" and that solved the 'problem'.
It would be great, if in some future universe, it was possible to highlight each of the 'offending' items (whatever they might be) and then click autoplacement OFF. A little like highlighting several notes and clicking once on 'staccato' or a dynamic whatever.
Incidentally (and nothing to do with the above) the piece I am writing was brought about by getting lost in YouTube world the other night and watching someone go on about the Mixolydian flat6 scale (or mode). "That sounds different, if not a little weird. Wonder what its like to write with?" thought I. And for my amateur big band to boot.
In reply to Hi Marc and thankyou for… by onscuba
No need to do something like that "laboriously" - just select the full page, right-click a hairpin, Select / All Similar Elements in Range Selection, and turn it off for all at ocne. But again, you'll get collisions, so I'm not understanding how this really "solves" the problem - seems it just turns it into a different problem. Again, if you post your score, we can understand and assist better.