Measure numbers
I am inserting measure numbers and have figured out how to do that. However, it looks like the default position for numbers is above the staff (and therefore, above the measure). I want it below the staff (measure). Is the the only way to do that by changing the Vertical position under Style/Text/Measure Number? Note: I changed it from -2.00sp to 5.50sp which did move it from above the staff to below.
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That would be exactly the way to do it.
Something similar – entering a calculation and applying it globally – is how all notation programs handle this.
The fun comes when you extract parts and all these measure numbers are not where players expect to see them.
In reply to Something similar – entering by MikeHalloran
"The fun comes when you extract parts and all these measure numbers are not where players expect to see them."
What do you mean? Are the #s not going to stay where I put them once I print out separate parts?
In reply to "The fun comes when you by eddn
They'll stay where you put them—unless you move them (you can have a different style in the parts from the main score, or even change the style of one of the parts individually). I believe Mike's point is that it's more common for measure numbers to be above the staff than below, but I've definitely seen it both ways, so I wouldn't worry.
By the way, welcome back, Mike! Good to see you again.
In reply to They'll stay where you put by Isaac Weiss
We've all seen them on the bottom -- especially if we've read enough student compositions. I sat principal bass in a university sponsored orchestra for a dozen years so I saw a lot of those.
Players like them on top where they belong. This became standard decades ago.
In reply to We've all seen them on the by MikeHalloran
If so, thank you for the information. Can you provide a source for that? I can't find anything on the internet that says one way or the other:
http://mola-inc.org/article/Music-Preparation-Guidelines-for-Orchestral…
https://music.yale.edu/students/performancepolicies/mola-guidelines/
http://www.music.indiana.edu/departments/academic/composition/style-gui…
Interestingly, this search led me to come across a case of Finale lacking one of MuseScore's essential usability features—apparently in Finale there's no way to set the vertical position of measure numbers in one part independently of the other parts: http://www.rpmseattle.com/of_note/on-location-vertical-placement-of-bar…
In reply to "The fun comes when you by eddn
Assuming you may the style change before generating the parts, then yes, it will carry forward to the parts, so everything will work nicely.
If you have already generated the parts, you'll have to update the style for the parts separately, since MuseScore allows you to have separate styles for score and parts. So you'd view one part, make the change there, and hit the "apply to all parts" button in the style dialog.