I have this problem that that demisemiquaver notes don't fit on the page.
Hello all ! The notes in my score spill over laterally to the next page. I have had this problem before but I adjusted my music to make the notes fit. In this case here though, I really don't want to change my music.
Is this a bug, or it is a simple limitation of the software ? Note that the demisemiquavers fit onto the page as single notes, but when converted into octaves, they don't fit onto the page anymore.
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It's not a limitation of the software so much as with the laws of physics :-). If a note is X millimeters wide, and the minimum note distance in Format / Style / Measure is Y millimeters, and you have Z notes to fit in, it's going to take (X+Y)*Z millimeters. If your page isn't that wide, it's not going to fit. So you need smaller notes and/or less space between notes. In your case here, its the ledger line that cause them not to fit. so you can also try shorter ledger lines, but that will make the music harder to read, so I don't recommend it over simply going with slightly smaller staff size - or larger paper.
In reply to It's not a limitation of the… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks. I did in fact just now resolve the problem by changing the format. I know next to nothing about computers but I instinctively found out how to do it.
I wanted to find this thread to say I'd already sorted the problem out, but I couldn't manage to find the thread. I just hope that it will still print on normal A4 paper now, that's all. I don't have a printer, and I always get other people to print out my music for me, so I can't try right now, as it's 5 o'clock in the morning here.
I can read it well still with the zoom setting at 150%. I have a 27 inch monitor screen, so that makes it easy for me.
Thanks for your quick response to my request for help.