first staff in a new score
How can I move the first staff to the left, so it's in line with the following ones?
How can I move the first staff to the left, so it's in line with the following ones?
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Untick Format > Style > Score > Indent first system
In reply to Untick Format > Style >… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks! It worked, do I have to do it for each new score?
I figured out, that I could use the Jazz Lead Sheet :)
And another question: the last measure, which is the second repeat (measure 9) lands on a new line, but I want it on the first line. How can I get it up there?
In reply to Thanks! It worked, do I have… by alonil
In reply to Thanks! It worked, do I have… by alonil
To be clwar: the reason it's the default is that for most music, indenting the first system is normal and correct. Jazz lead sheets are one of the main exceptions to this, which is why this setting is turned off for that template. If you have some other specific type of music you are creating for which music is also typically presented without indenting, you can create your own template. Just set up a score how you like and save it to your Templates folder. Then it will show in the list of available templates every time you create a new score.
As for squeezing more measure one a line, first make sure you don't have a system break at the end of measure 8 that you need to remove. If you do, delete it. If not, then you can try reducing stretch - shortcut is "{". But depending how tight things are, you might also need to reduce staff size or other settings. MuseScore only puts as many measure on a system as your settings allow.
In reply to To be clwar: the reason it's… by Marc Sabatella
I play the accordion and have tons of sheet music in many genres (musette, klezmer, tango, jazz, folk music from various places, etc.). Only about a third (if not less) of these pieces have an indented first system, that's why I was very surprised about musescore's new default.
In reply to I play the accordion and… by alonil
My implementation of that feature would have been diferent: simply add a horizontal frame before the first measure. Advantages:
I said all that back then, but apparently got ignored or not understood
In reply to My implementation of that… by Jojo-Schmitz
Sounds like that would have been a good solution to the issue.
Oh well, maybe next time ...
In reply to My implementation of that… by Jojo-Schmitz
The downside of that would be there would be no easy way to change the amount of the indent globally - eg, for all sections within a score, as a style setting one can load via MSS file, etc. At least, not without complicating things by further adding more properties and settings to control whether the frame then responds to a more global setting, which would in turn invite more confusion of the sort we are seeing with the new auto size property in vertical frames.
Might still have been a worthwhile tradeoff, or maybe somehow solvable without introducing extra confusion, but I think it's not quite so simple as it might seem at first.
In reply to The downside of that would… by Marc Sabatella
Whether a horiziontal frame of a certain configurable width or an indent is inserted automatically isn't making any diffence to the process itself.
But indeed with framesthese then could get their width changed individually. That in turn has pros and cons.
If not wanted it could get overcome with another style option, like done for the 'automatic size' of vertical frames, and their apparent minimum height with that option set.
In reply to I play the accordion and… by alonil
I would say, though, that this is probably all accordion music, as opposed to music for any of the hundreds of other instruments. And mostly solo music as opposed to ensemble music, etc. It's important to look at the broad spectrum of music across not just different style of music for one solo instrument, but also, different instruments, different types of ensembles, etc. Not saying it isn't reasonable to do this for accordion solo music - so I encourage you to set up a score the way you personally prefer then save it to your Templates folder for easy reuse. I'm just trying to explain where the defaults come from.
In reply to I would say, though, that… by Marc Sabatella
I play with other musicians all the time, the music I have is not specifically for accordion, it's just for instruments in C. And most of it does not have an indented first line, that's just my experience.
In reply to Untick Format > Style >… by Jojo-Schmitz
Hello Jojo!
According to the attached file, I didn't find this formatting option that you mentioned.
My MuseScore 3.6 is partially translated into Portuguese, could I translate it in full?
Thank you very much friend!
In reply to Hello Jojo! According to the… by mjbartemusica1
could I translate it in full?
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/helping-improve-translations
In reply to Hello Jojo! According to the… by mjbartemusica1
First update to the latest existing translations, see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/language-translations-and-extensions#…. Brazilian Portuguese is quite complete actually, just some 310 strings not yet translated. Plain Portuguese though is in quite a bad shape, 3,742 untranslated strings, a bit less than 50%
In reply to First update to the latest… by Jojo-Schmitz
I updated the most recent existing translations, however, I still haven't found the configuration: "Uncheck Format> Style> Punctuation> Backward first system" according to the attachment in a previous message ...
Much obliged!
In reply to I updated the most recent… by mjbartemusica1
I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for...
In reply to I'm not sure if that's what… by Shoichi
OK friend!
Exactly, very grateful ...
In reply to OK friend! Exactly, very… by mjbartemusica1
Thank you for the contributions.
In reply to I updated the most recent… by mjbartemusica1
So it is one of those missing 310 translations?
In reply to So it is one of those ~300? by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes!
In reply to Yes! by mjbartemusica1
Then you're asked to contribute to the translations! ;-)
In reply to Then you're asked to… by Jojo-Schmitz
Good morning (in Brazil) Jojo!
I am very grateful for the trust and invitation however, I have no command of English to be able to participate in a collaboration. Because all I get is using Google Translate.
With the intention of helping MuseScore musicians and users in Brazil, I developed this course on Udemy where I cover the main MuseScore tools:
https://www.udemy.com/course/musica-no-computador-com-o-musescore-3/lea…
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