'Squeezing' bars into a single line
Currently combining 4 trumpet parts into a single part for a jazz ensemble that is severely lacking players (I am the only trumpet, playing Enesco's Satin Doll which has 4 trumpet parts). The formatting in the real part has 7 bars in a single line, where as I can only get 6 bars.
I've tried fiddling around with the stretch settings, but can't seem to get musescore to move the last bar, I remember being able to drag barlines to shorten bars, but that no longer seems to work in Muse4.
Not a massive issue but would definitely ease my OCD!
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Comments
Try fiddling with the margin sizes and staff space scaling in Format>Page settings. Adjusting stretch is pretty much a last resort as it tends to make the note spacing uncomfortably tight.
In reply to Try fiddling with the margin… by SteveBlower
Changing page margins seemed to work thanks!
In reply to Try fiddling with the margin… by SteveBlower
I disagree, in recent versions of MuseScore reducing stretch works quite well.
In reply to I disagree, in recent… by Jojo-Schmitz
Hmm? I haven't tried playing with stretch in MU4 yet. Certainly in MU3 the results were less good adjusting stretch than if I made more space between margins or reduced the scaling.
In reply to Hmm? I haven't tried playing… by SteveBlower
It was pretty bad in Mu1, but I'm using it ever since. Or reduce the space value