1 bar fills an entire line
Hi
I have seen a similar question but I have not been able to solve the problem with the answers given. My piece is 4 bars per line but for some reason Bar 24 has it's own line. There is no line break between Bars 23 and 24 and when I remove the bar break at 24 Bar 28 becomes a single bar line. I have looked at the handbook re stretching and shrinking and again no luck. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Range selection of measures 21-24, and "Decrease stretch" two times: 1BEBOPALOOKA Eb-1.mscz
In reply to Range selection of measures… by cadiz1
Thanks so much. I've been using this Programme for a day so I am very much a newbie!!
In reply to Thanks so much. I've been… by esssess
Congratulations. Great start :)
It works for me if I select measure 21 to 24 and use decrease stretch (https://musescore.org/en/handbook/layout-and-formatting#layout-stretch) twice again.
In reply to It works for me if I select… by kuwitt
Thank you for your help. Much appreciated.
I had this issue too - so nice to see theirs an easy fix (even if it took a while to find it!). But why does it happen? Perhaps this fix should be in a FAQ?
In reply to I had this issue too - so… by sportsnapper
MuseScore applies standard engraving principles to determine the spacing for each measure and tries to fit as many measures as it can per line. If your score happens to have so many notes in a given passage that the standard engraving practice won't allow more measures on the line, then indeed but you want to force it to anyhow, you have to explicitly tell MuseScore to override its default spacing. That's the "why does it happen". If you feel it shouldn't be the case for some particular score, feel free to attach it so we can see.
Anyhow, the procedures for overriding defaults are described in the Handbook in several places as well as various tutorials etc. The trick is knowing where to look :-)
In reply to MuseScore applies standard… by Marc Sabatella
Marc,
Thanks for getting back to me with this information. I did try the things I found in the handbook - but I couldn't make them work for this particular piece. Though I've fixed it now, I've attached the score for you to look at (at least I think it was this one as I've had to leave this for a couple of days to do real work!).
As you can see, it's quite simple, but bars 27 and 28 just wanted to be on a line of their own. This, as an exercise piece really needed to have four bars per line!
In reply to Marc,… by sportsnapper
I was struggling to find the actual part of the score which was failing - but just found a paper print of it which I've scanned in. Bar 28 was the culprit - as you can see.
In reply to Marc,… by sportsnapper
When I load that file, I see four bars per line. However, I can also see you've already reduced stretch a bit, because when I reset it with Layout / Reset Stretch, measure 28 indeed does not fit with measures 25-7. And this is absolutely to be expected - those measures are already very full because of all the accidentals. MuseScore is using good judgment in not trying to squeeze bar 28 onto that same line by default, in "normal" music this would be inadvisable. But since this is an exercises and you have special reaosn to want exactly four bars per line, then decreasing stretch is indeed exactly how to do this. So, select those bars (25-8) and press "{" and everything fits.
So it isn't clear what you tried that didn't work, but the thing that is usually suggested first - decreasing stretch from the default - definitely does.
Me too, in Musescore 3.0.2. all of the suggestions here failed to help. bar 21 is oversized, and does not display properly.
In reply to Me too, in Musescore 3.0.2… by InstantCurry
In bar 21 there is a misplaced flat accidental in the bottom bass clef. (It is near the dotted quarter G.)
Click on it, then press Ctrl+R to reset it.
In reply to Me too, in Musescore 3.0.2… by InstantCurry
Also, the latest stable version is 3.0.5
See:
https://musescore.org/en/download
In reply to Also, the latest stable… by Jm6stringer
Cool. Thanks!