new scores creates narrow measures along one line instead of many lines
Hello,
For some reason every time i create a new score, all the measures are narrow and created along one long line of ten measures instead of like four per line and lets say eight lines per page.
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How does one straighten this issue out either when starting a new score, or once created, arranging the layout so it looks more or less neat and standard. When I try to add or delete measures it does this on a second line, never allowing me to get rid of any measures one first line. In the end I want four or eight measures per line for a whole page....
thanks!
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Comments
Welcome to MuseScore! The measures will expand as you enter notes, but if you prefer you can place line breaks ahead of time. See https://musescore.org/en/node/36151.
In reply to Welcome to MuseScore! The by Isaac Weiss
Great. Selecting the measure in the first line and selecting return worked for the first line, but not the second line, I had to drag in the symbol from the Breaks and Spacers thing.
But it seems to work - thanks!
In reply to Great. Selecting the measure by von braun
You're welcome! For what it's worth, you'll probably want to remove all the line breaks at some point and let the automatic spacing do its job.
In reply to Great. Selecting the measure by von braun
It works for any line. Not sure what you might have been doing wrong - maybe you tried selecting the measure instead of the barline? But anyhow, as mentioned, you really should not be adding line breaks before entering notes. Everything spaces automatically and correctly according to standard conventions of music typesetting if you leave it alone. If you interfere by inserting line breaks at arbitrary places, your music spacing will not be as good as it should be. When you are done entering notes if you still feel you want to fine tune things you are welcome to, bu guessing at how many measures will look good before you've enetered the notes is seldom going to produce good results. Just let MsueScore do its thing unless you are producing some special purpose format where you absolutely know you will want a certain number of measures on a line (eg, some fakebooks or music for small children will force four measures per line).