Score Bloat in Version 3

• Mar 11, 2019 - 14:47
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Always
Status
duplicate
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project

Please find attached (1) a version 2.3.2 score formatted nicely to three pages, with reasonably large, readable lyrics and chord symbols; and (2) my best attempt to get the same score down to three pages in MS version 3.

Importing the MS2 score Into MS3 increases its page length from three to six pages. Selecting all measures and attempting to decrease the Layout Stretch produces no change. So to get the score down from six pages to three in MS3, I took the staff space scaling down to 0.964mm. I then increased the size of the lyric font as large as I could without causing the length of the score to go back up over three pages. I did the same with the chord symbols.

As you can see, the MS2 version of the score is far more readable in the three-page format then the MS3 version.

I also tried unsetting the Automatic Placement property on the text to see if I could manually twiddle the thing into shape. That produces what can only be described as a disaster.


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