Format Measure
Hi all;
I'm working my way into music as a newbie and as part of my steep learning curve is MuseScore and I'm not doing so bad. Searches and Help work really well but I've found it's not the answers that are hard, it's finding the right question.
So, here is a screen snapshot (attached) of a piece of music that I've "compressed" down to two phrases (with repeats and different endings). Yeh, so far, so good, but what's driving me "nuts" is line 3 - it's got one note in the measure but the measure takes up the whole page width. Whereas line 5 looks good.
I can't find the "right question" to tell me how to make line 3 look like line 5. I know it's no biggie but it's become an obsession...
Can someone help?
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The gray arrows are system breaks, they're like carriage returns in a word processor. They force what comes after them to the next line. Just like a word processor they are added by pressing return. In MuseScore you can also delete one by selecting nearly anything in the measure and pressing return.
To make line 3 look like line 5, you need to delete the system break above the word 'Fine' (measure 5).
Then click on measure 6 and insert a horizontal frame (between m.5 and m.6). Put the system break onto the horizontal frame and adjust the frame's width by clicking on the frame and dragging the little square 'handle' to make the frame bigger (and measure 5 smaller).
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/frames#horizontal
Here's your score with the frame inserted:
nettleton2.mscz
In reply to To make line 3 look like… by Jm6stringer
Thank you, on two accounts, the mused-up file with the measure looking like it should and the horizontal reference link...
LOL, I was looking for something "vertical" to put in...
As I said, answers are easy, questions are hard.