Fix measures <-- has disappeared in 2.0.0
The handbook needs to be updated because the screenshots for how to specify the numbers of measures in a system (equivalent to FIT MUSIC in Finale) are erroneous. The screenshots in style/system still show that there is a checkbox for FIX MEASURES but that is now gone.
By the way, what happened to the FIX MEASURES feature?
I was told that the workaround is Layout/Stretch -- but this doesn't work for multiple measures (for me; perhaps I'm doing something wrong??) I can only change one measure at a time by tiny increments.
Help!
Thanks.
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Stretch definitely works for multipe measures. Just select them and press "{" as many times as necessary to get them to all fit on a line together. The change is in 10% incrementsAssuming it's possible to fit the measures at all, it should not normally take more than 2-3 presses of "{" to get the job done.
If you have a specific score and a specific group of measures you are having problems with, feel to post the score and list the precise steps to reproduce the problem you are seeing, and we would be able to help further.
Welcome aboard.
Use menu item: Edit - Tools - Add/Remove Line Breaks, where you can specify to Break lines every x measures.
Regards.
In reply to Welcome aboard. Use menu by Jm6stringer
This command helps to fix number of measures but not their width. So they have different length and it isn't aesthetical. :/ How can we solve this problem?
In reply to This command helps to fix by Elnara Ahmetzade
Is that a problem? If measures have different amounts of notes in them, then they're not all going to be the same width. But you can change the stretch of any measure, if you really want to.
In reply to This command helps to fix by Elnara Ahmetzade
Measures are *supposed* to have different widths - a measure with a whole note should not take nearly as much room as a measure full if sixteenth notes. So MuseScore does the correct standard spacing here.
If you prefer non-standard spacing where all measures have the same width despite having different content, you can try to adjust the widths using the increase/decrease stretch functions ("}" and "{", which may be applied multiple times).
Where in the (2.0) handbook you see fix measure being mentioned?
Ah, I see, https://musescore.org/en/node/35896#style-edit-general-style-system
Yes, we need to fix that, indeed. Thanks for bringing that up!
In reply to Where in the (2.0) handbook by Jojo-Schmitz
Fixed now