Lyrics positioning problem
I'm using Musescore for notating leadsheets of Hungarian folk songs and other old songs. Whenever it possible I need them in one A4 page. Some long songs with lyrics got overflow that page about 2-3 systems but without lyrics it's fitted in about 60-70% of the page. Like in the example pictures in the Musescore score the lyrics widen the space between notes too much and the score can't be fitted in one page. I've set the settings like measure spacing, page margins, staff and system settings, font family and size but I can't reach my goal.
Like in the example picture (other-score-with-lyrics) the lyrics narrowed and this way it's uses much less space. How can I use lyrics without using that much space of the page?
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I've forgot to mention that I'm using Musesore 1.2 (Rev:5470) under Ubuntu 12.04. Thanks for helping.
In reply to I've forgot to mention that by ettemlevest
Have a look at http://musescore.org/en/handbook/layout-and-formatting
In reply to Have a look at by Jojo-Schmitz
I played with these settings before but didn't know all of them. Tomorrow I will test out after these wiki page. Thanks.
With any question regarding formatting (and, in fact, for most MuseScore questions) it helps if you can post your score and then someone can maybe see what changes can be made to it.
See the attached files which shows that you can shrink things a lot but note that there is a limit when things become too small to read,
In reply to Post your MuseScore by underquark
Thanks for your examples. I need to do this method with my score. But for now I couldn't reach that.
This is an example score for my problem. With lyrics it uses one and a half page without it only half page. How can I fit it in one page with lyrics without drastically lowering the font size?
Thanks all of you! I've got it. After looking at differences in the two example scores and with the help of the wiki page. I've found the Scaling (Layout->Page settings). This is great, now I have that song in only one page.
Thank you so much for the help!