Spacing Out Staff Lines
Hi there, I'm trying to spread out the staves in this arrangement to make it a bit easier to read. I'm using Format > Style > Page > Max System Distance but for some reason the first page of the score is "maxing out" at 13.0sp and won't get any wider, while the space between the staves on the second continues to increase past 13.0sp. Any idea why the first page can't get any wider than 13.0sp? Shouldn't it continue to increase and just push staves onto the second page when they don't fit anymore? Score is attached.
Thanks!
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No, max is only for letting the systems spread out on the page after MuseScore decided how many systems to fit. If you always want more than 13sp between systems, you need to increase the min.
But realistically, that's also the wrong answer. You probably wouldn't literally want all systems to have that much space between them - just the one with lyrics. Sure, that does happen to be all systems, but the point is, it's the lyrics I am guessing you are wanting more space around. So better to increase the lyrics bottom margin in Format / Style / Lyrics. Or some combination of these settings.
Or, just add a page break to end the first page earlier if you want more space between systems - easier than messing with settings at all.
In reply to No, max is only for letting… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks! I had originally changed system min to absolutely no effect, but it is working now - might have just been a bug earlier this afternoon.
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In reply to Thanks! I had originally… by jacobsamuel24
No, more likely you just didn't increase it enough - MsueScore was already spreading rh staves out for you. The staff distance "floats" between the min and max, it will be no less than min, no more than max, but is often somewhere between - a value that exactly fills the page. So changing min won't have an effect until you change it enough to push another system off the page. Which is why I said, just adding a page break is normally simpler.
In reply to No, more likely you just… by Marc Sabatella
I had changed both the min and the max to 30.0sp just to confirm that nothing on the first page was moving. The first page remained exactly the same (13.0sp) but the second page had 3 staves with 30.0sp between them :) ...but I hear you. Adding a page break is a simple solution.
In reply to I had changed both the min… by jacobsamuel24
I tried 30 & 30 and it worked as expected, once I convinced the dialog to let me enter those numbers - there is code to keep the max from being less than the min, so you have to careful how you enter the numbers. My guess is that is what went wrong