Fixed bar width?
Can I set the same width for all bars of a staff?
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Can I set the same width for all bars of a staff?
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Yes, see http://musescore.org/en/handbook/layout-and-formatting
I don't know if you are using a localized version of Musescore, or the one for the English language.
Under Menu item Style / Edit General Style / System -- it reads 'Fix Measure Width'.
For a lot of musicians - especially guitar players - 'bars' are the places we mainly perform our music... :-)
Regards...
In reply to Also... by Jm6stringer
But then measures are the amounts we consume our whisky/gin/rum/vodka in :)
In reply to But then measures are the by ChurchOrganist
You missed your calling... :-)
In reply to Also... by Jm6stringer
Great, sorry for my english, I meant Measure of course :-) (in italian is battuta or misura).
Micrologus
In reply to :-) by micrologus
Bars is correct English
Measures is American English (or old English)
I think we need to get used to using both interchangeably.
Mark
In reply to Bars is correct by musomark
...are likely the two words most often used interchangeably, both here (MS Forum) and in real life (perhaps followed by crotchet/quarter or quaver/eighth).
In my poor attempt at frivolity, I seem to have failed; therefore (unlike ChurchOrganist) I think I shall keep my day job.
Regards...
In reply to "Bars" / "Measures"... by Jm6stringer
Too many measures in a bar will leave you somewhat Tremolo! :-)
But I, too, want to have a fixed system length of just two short bars.
Then several systems (maybe ten on a page) that I want to populate with different time and key signatures to go into a student book as reading exercises (eg Pick the system with waltz time in b flat).
I find that MS quite quickly blows out the system width to the whole page width and using the '{' option doesn't really work the way I need.I think the only way is to do them one at a time and then use a desktop publisher to align the samples.
Any other ideas?
In reply to Too many measures in a bar… by RogerHallett
You can use Edit->Tools->Add/Remove line breaks from the menu to make line breaks after every 2nd measure. You will then need to play with the minimum/maximum system spaces to make 10 systems appear on a page.
With what you want to do this should work well. You should have no problems with measures growing too wide. Measure stretch should not be a factor in what you want to do. You will never stretch them wide enough to put 2 measures on a line, and if you changed it, the line breaks will make those changes unnoticeable.
You will probably want to look at the first time and key signatures on each line in the inspector to turn off courtesy.
In reply to You can use Edit->Tools->Add… by mike320
Hello Mike, thanks for the suggestion - I will try that as well as Marc's. Will get it done somehow!
Regards,
Roger
In reply to Too many measures in a bar… by RogerHallett
If you don't want systems filled out the whole width of the page, you have two options:
1) make the right margin larger, in Layout / Page Settings
or
2) add horizontal frames to the end of each system, add the line break to the frame rather than the preceding measure
In reply to If you don't want systems… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks Marc - I will try both and let you know.
In reply to Also... by Jm6stringer
thank you