Making bars with less notes, smaller than { or } does

• Jan 30, 2020 - 06:56

I'm familiar with using { and } to reduce and stretch bars and lines, but sometimes I just want to grab a barline and move it because the auto settings just aren't quite right.
As an example, the attached image. The first bar could be much reduced to allow more room for the subsequent bars with more lyrics.
Is this at all possible?
Thanks
David

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It is a pickup bar and I've tried adjusting the layout stretch in the bar properties, but that only affects the distance between the two notes in that bar - not the empty space at the beginning of the bar.

Also I would like to be able to do this to other bars in other songs that aren't pickup bars but still aren't quite how I'd like to see them. Usually because the lyrics are somewhat crowded.

Thanks for your help.

D

In reply to by davsun55

Generally speaking, adjusting stretch should not normally be necessary - the default spacing should already be quite good. Chances are whatever problem you are trying to solve, could be solved more easily a different way. Like in this case, the solution was to fix the incorrectly set leading space. So, if you have other scores where you are resorting to stretch adjustments, it would be good to see them in order to understand and assist better.

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