How to keep notes to scale when increasing line space distance

• May 13, 2017 - 22:32

Greetings.

On the attached sample, I tried inputting specific notes either before or after I increased the height between staff lines (using the staff properties command to increase the height) and in either case, the notes do not follow the height adjustment. What must I do to get the notes to move with a line height adjustment?

Thank you!

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• May 13, 2017 - 23:08

Right now, the line distance setting is only useful for a couple of very specific purposes - mostly having to do with tablature. Trying to put normal music on a staff with an altered line distance won't work correctly. For 3.0, this situation will be improved, but it's still not what you want. t will still be a small note sitting inside a large staff space - not correctly scaled at all. So for what you want - which is the "normal" thing to want - the "Staff space" setting you have now been shown is and always will be the correct way to go. But for 3.0, *if* you should want small notes inside large staff staff spaces, the line distance setting will work better than it does currently.

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• May 13, 2017 - 23:52

Thank you all for your helpful replies! I asked this question because the melody/treble line was already created and inputted into MuseScore but the bass line has not yet been created and I wanted just to increase the bass line distances so I could have the height I needed to hand write in the bass line notes when away from my computer. I planned to restore the bass line to its proper height once the penciled-in draft was finished. However, when first highlighting the empty base lines and then using the staff properties command to only adjust the height of the bass clef lines, it also adjusted the height of the melody/treble clef line (but without the proper proportion), which I did not want to happen as I had already created and typed in the treble clef notes and did not need the extra treble line height to pencil in notes as I have yet to do with the bass clef notes.

Thanks again!

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• May 14, 2017 - 00:43

Thanks for the reply, Marc. I hope you won't mind assisting me further once you know how I went about it but in a way that did not work.

Before writing for assistance, I changed the bass clef line distance in "Staff Properties" to 1.25 sp. I saw that, by default, the scale was already set to 100% and the results I got can be seen in my initial attachment, i.e., the 100% scale setting did not keep the notes in proportion. So, If I want the bass clef to be at 1.25 (giving me room to hand write in notes during the away-from-my-computer drafting stage), what do I set the scale to be that would still keep the proportion of the already inputted treble clef but afford me the extra line height in the bass clef for hand written in notes?

Thanks again!

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• May 14, 2017 - 01:30

If I want the bass clef to be at 1.25 (giving me room to hand write in notes during the away-from-my-computer drafting stage), what do I set the scale to be that would still keep the proportion of the already inputted treble clef...

Right click only on the staff you wish to change, then in 'Staff Properties' set 'Scale' to something like 125%. (Don't use 'Line Distance'.)
See attachment.

Regards.

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Line height adjustment_fix.mscz 6.89 KB

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• May 14, 2017 - 03:56

To be clear: "Scaling" changes the size of the staff as a whole, and - as the name implies - everything on that staff scales with it. So, the space between lines increases, and so does the size of the notes on the staff, the thickness of the lines themselves, and pretty much everything else.

The "Line distance" setting, on the other hand, literally changes the distance between lines and nothing else. It really has no function in standard notation, but was introduced for the sake of tablature and some experimental notations that might rely on having standard note sizes within a larger staff.

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• May 14, 2017 - 18:10

I wanted to understand the difference between "Scaling" and "Line Distance" but was afraid to ask feeling I had already taken up much of every respondent's time. Thank you for clarifying this for me! You are all so wonderful............ Please know I very much appreciate whatever assistance is offered to me.

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