bar numbering

• Aug 14, 2022 - 04:20

: I like to add bar numbering to any music I enter. I go to "format" then "style" then to "bar numbering" on the menu that pops up and enter my requirements. If I move the menu down on the screen so I can see the music, the numbers are there as I want the. However, as soon as I exit the menu, they go away. Why is this and how do I keep them there?


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In reply to by adrian5

It's a sort-of-common problem for operating systems to communicate the screen resolution to MuseScore incorrectly, causing it to draew things too large. If you view a score at 100%, is it the same size as a piece of paper, or is it larger? Does anything else look unusually large on your system? What OS are you on? Depending on your answers, we can show you how best to fix this.

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

If anything, it is all too small (except the style menu which is now adjusted and fixed. A score at 100% is uncomfortably small, so i use 150%. It needs to be 200% to be A4 sized. All the words and symbols in the tool bar went very small when I "repaired" recently, although no repairs were needed. I am on Windows 9. It is only that I am so familiar with musescore that I can work around them. At a guess, I would say they are 6 point.

In reply to by adrian5

Interesting, I don't know that I've seen cases where everything else is too small but the style dialog is too big. Is the display itself unusually small?

You say Windows 9, but there is no such thing - maybe you mean 8? or 10? In 10 at least, you can try using Explorer to navigate to the MuseScore installation folder (typically in C:\Program Files\MuseScore 3), then finding the "bin" folder within that, and then finding the ".exe" file for MuseScore. Right-click it, Properties, Compatibility, and try different settings for the various high DPI options, restarting MuseScore after each attempt. Often one will trick Windows into reporting the display resolution more correctly, which in turn will cause MuseScore to display sized more correctly.

In reply to by adrian5

F9 will reopen the palettes. Or, if you had previously undocked them and now they are floating offscreen, you can try help / revert to factory settings. There is also a “reset dialog positions” plugin you can download, install, and run if you have lots of customizations you’d rather not lose.

In reply to by adrian5

Measure and bar mean the same thing; measure is just the standard Amercian term while bar is the standard UK term. If you did a factory reset, perhaps it changed your language setting? You can change it back in Edit / Preferences / General.

Measure numbers are meant to be small so they don't interfere with the notes in your score, but if you have a normal-sized score, they should still be perfectly readable (the default is 8 pt). And also, the factory reset shouldn't have changed anything at all about any of your scores - only the program settings. Are you saying one of your scores looks different than before? If so, please attach that score so we can understand better. Also maybe attach a screenshot so we can understand what you are seeing.

As mentioned, you can change size or other properties of most elements by using the Inspector, then hit the "set as style" button ("S" icon) to make that the default for the whole score.

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

Thanks again Marc. I realise bar and measure are the same thing, but thought it bizarre that bar should change to measure just as I am raising these queries. I don't know what you mean by "the Inspector", but I went to format/style and then right to the bottom to set styles and made various things bigger. I do note that when I right click on the top tool bar one of the boxes that comes up is "Inspector", which is ticked. However, none of that relates to the size of type on the tool bars etc. they used to be quite legible, but are now tiny. I seem to be unable to take a screen shot of the menus and tool bars.

In reply to by adrian5

The Inspector is what you ee on th right side of screen, unless you previously closed it. If you did, reopen it from the View menu. But thius only affects your score, not toolbars.

The type on the toolbars is what I was saying sometimes is wrong if your OS lies about the screen resolution And that's why I gave suggestions on how to fix that. Whiich of those suggestions did you try?

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

I went to help and reset to factory. The musescore screen is now legible on my right screen, but when i move it across to my left screen, it goes small again. I guess I just use it on my right screen now. I have never had anything change size when I moved from one screen to another before. Truly weird. Just as well it's a great program!

In reply to by adrian5

Could be a driver updated in your OS, or something else changed the resolution or scaling settings for them. But yeah, one way or another, your OS is telling MuseScore something not right about the resolution. You might need to go into the settings for those displays and poke around to see if you can figure anything out. And you may need to add "-D xxx" to the command line used to start MuseScore, where "xxx" is actual display resolution of the desired monitor.

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