Text is made small if attached to a small staff
This is a small problem I ran into just lately (Musescore 2.0.3.1. on Mac OS Yosemite):
Take a piano score of a piece for piano and another instrument (say a sonata for cello or violin and piano). After typesetting make the part above the piano grand staff small as is customary (it is easier to typeset at full size).
Result: All text appearing above the small score is made smaller (without displaying a smaller point size), including system text like rehearsal marks and measure numbers (though those are I believe not system text).
Expected: System text and measure numbers stay at the original size.
The same thing happens if you add ossia passages using a small staff which is also often done.
It is easy to fix in a score (by making the point size larger) and it is certainly not a high priority but I wanted to report it anyway.
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in any text settings there is, under the line police+size, a check box whose French name is "la taille correspond au paramètre espace de portée" which change the reaction of texts when "space" is modified. In one case the text size follows the space value; in the other case it doesn't follow space.
In reply to in any text settings there by robert leleu
This button does not solve the problem entirely. I have found that one can get away with a somewhat smaller print, alleviate the problems with page turns somewhat and still keep the music perfectly readable (Bärenreiter uses an even smaller size for example in their Schubert quartets). So I am now always using a scale factor of 1.5, about 10% below the default.
If I deselect the option to scale by staff size all my texts go back to the original default size and still don't look right.
It is correct for ordinary staff text to be small if attached to a small staff, but not correct for system text. This is a known issue, see for example #171036: setting top staff to small affects some texts that are attached to the system rather than the staff
See #171036: setting top staff to small affects some texts that are attached to the system rather than the staff