Staves and bars margins/spacing
Hi all, I don't think this question has been asked on this forum, specifically. Or at least not to my knowledge. Although I have been trying to follow some of the previous tips I have found here and there on this forum as well as on the web, I am still puzzled.
I have an old score at hand, and I am almost done re-writing it all. I would also love to try to match the same spacing between notes and the width of the bars used. I know, it's not functional - maybe - but that is the goal I wish to achieve.
I have been trying to impose a break every certain number of bars, but the problem I have then is: certain bars are way too stretched.
Any suggestions or helpful tips? Many thanks. Here attached one screenshot from the Musescore sheet and one from the original sheet.
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Comments
Maybe next time attach a score :-)
(Note: I see that there are no braces on the grand staff; you can get these from the “brackets and braces” palette. Or whatever it’s called. I don’t know if you want it but IMHO it looks rather ugly without a brace.)
The first line of the original is indented, so measures are less stretched out than MuseScore's first line.
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/systems-and-horizontal-spacing#Crea…
Also, in the MuseScore sheet, you can select measures 14 to 20 and decrease stretch to fit on one line.
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/systems-and-horizontal-spacing#layo…
Other thoughts:
Be sure the page size is the same for both scores. (Wider paper allows for notes to be more stretched out (given the same margin settings).
If notes look bigger in the original (and the spaces in the staff are wider in the original), you can increase scaling in MuseScore..
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/score-size-and-spacing#scaling
In reply to The first line of the… by Jm6stringer
Forgot about that part haha