Distance between staff lines score-wide
Submitted by JoeAlders on September 2, 2010 - 8:47am.
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I want to adjust (increase) the space between staff lines ‘score-wide’. The handbook
says to use in this case ‘style settings’. When I go to ‘style’ – ‘edit general style’ – ‘page’- and
adjust the ‘staff distance’ after OK, nothing happens.
Can somebody help me please?
You're looking in the right place, but try adjusting the 'System distance' instead (in the same dialog box).
You might find it useful to open one of the demo scores and then experiment with various settings. (I know I did!) Until there's detailed documentation about every setting, that's probably the best way to see their effect upon the the specific elements of the score that they control.
stevebob,
Thanks for your response. But after some experimenting with no result, I got the feeling
that I am trying to solve 'one equation with two unknowns' or 'one equation with three unknowns'.
Can you be more specific please?
Regards Joe.
Joe, I may have incorrectly assumed you wanted to increase the space between sets of score lines, i.e., between “systems.” Did you mean instead that you wish to expand the space between the individual lines of every staff (that is, to make the five lines further apart from one another)?
If that’s what you want, you could increase the setting in Layout > Page Settings for “Space” -- but doing so will re-scale most of the other elements on the page, too.
I’m not aware of any way of manipulating the space between the five lines of a staff without changing everything else. (Neither do I know of a way to change the thickness (or “weight”) of the staff lines ... not that I have any real need to do so.) If either of those is possible, perhaps someone else will offer the solution.
Go to >Layout>Page Settings. You can make the adjustments you wish there.
Regards,
stevebob, No I only want to increase the space between every staff line and not between
the line within a staff. And I want that for the whole score, so as a (template)standard.
But doing as you advised, I did not have any success
Xavierjazz, that is what stevebob advised but to adjust one (or more)parameter(s) and see a result I did not in any way expect that makes it very foggy.
It sounds, then, as though Style > Edit General Style > Page is where you need to fiddle around with the settings for System, Staff and/or Accolade distances.
I recommend changing the settings manually in very small increments and testing it out with "Apply"; if you use the clickable arrows, on the other hand, the values to the left of the decimal point will change -- and you probably need more subtle control than that.
It seems to become a ‘never ending story’: After I did some fiddling around with
System/Staff distances in the Edit General Style, I arrived at a satisfying staff distance of around 30mm. I even made a template with the same figures in those boxes.
But out of the bleu, after finishing my first (two page)score, I discovered that the distance
was increased from 30mm to 35mm. This is far too large. So I looked in that settings again to see if there was something changed. Nothing was changed.
I checked it with my template which still has a distance of 30mm and the same figures
are in those boxes. As far as I can see both the score and the template have matching figures when checking other parameters in the Edit General Style.
Whatever I do, I cannot get the 30mm distance back. Can somebody help me please?
Try this: go to "Style - Edit General Style - Page" and change "Page fill threshold" from 70% up to 100%. Now MuseScore don't fill the entire page spreading System/Staff.
Antonio
Thanks Antonio,
By, as you advised, increasing that percentage, I managed to get the old distance back.
But I have the uncomfortable feeling not to understand entirely what I am doing when fiddling
around with these figures.
Can somebody of the software people write some detailed explanation of that ‘Edit General Style’ tab?
Joe.