Stretch staff spacing variably on each page to always stretch to the margin?
For a band piece I'm working on, I want the page layout to look fairly uniform, and as such, I want every page to have the staves go to the margins so there's always the same amount of white space at the bottom of every page. However, I don't see any feature to do this easily; there's a feature for the last-system fill threshold to stretch measures horizontally, but I see nothing for spacing staves to ensure that the margin is always exactly the same.
Added a screenshot for reference; the first page on the left goes all the way down to the 10mm margin, but the page on the right has far too much blank space on the bottom instead of spacing the staves to reach all the way to the margin. Adjusting staff spacing makes some music go off the page, and adjusting the margins only pushes music too close to the margin away from it.
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Comments
Format/Page Settings->Odd/Even (bottom) margin?
Alternatively: append vertical frames to pages.
In reply to Format/Page Settings->Odd… by Shoichi
I've adjusted this, but this only pushes music away from the bottom margin should the orchestration be dense enough to push it down that far. The music in my score on less dense pages won't go all the way down to that margin.
In reply to I've adjusted this, but this… by sihplak
Change page size (eg. A3)?
In reply to Change page size (eg. A3)? by Shoichi
My page size is 10x13 and needs to stay that way; I have the stave size set to 3.2mm (0.8mm for each staff space) to fit all staves on the page and to closely approximate a rastral size of 8. Right now, some pages of music does reach all the way to the margin, and some don't because they are less densely orchestrated. I edited my original post with a screenshot for clarification.
In reply to My page size is 10x13 and… by sihplak
With patience you could use the spacers or try Format/Style/Page
It would be nice to have a feature to evenly spread staves across the page, so it doesn't look like it does in the attachment
In reply to It would be nice to have a… by Mario von der Tann
MuseScore does this by default already, at least it has for the past year or so. If you have a score created before 3.6.2, just go to Format / Style / Page and enable vertical justification of staves.
if you continue to have problems, please attach the actual score rather than just a picture of it. Then we can understand and assist better.
In reply to MuseScore does this by… by Marc Sabatella
OMG, I never knew that. Thanks, and sorry for complaining without checking.