Different Format for Page 1

I concur. MuseScore is a wonderful resource but I would like to see this as well. It is often possible to work around this problem on the first page by forgoing vertical frames and inserting titles, composer, etc., by entering them as System Text items. Another possibility is to simply use page one as a title page and begin the actual music on page two.

But these are awkward and time consuming solutions and the results are often only compromises. It would be very helpful to be able to specify a separate format for page one.

And while on a related subject, the vertical spacer is a highly useful tool for increasing space between staves. But it would also be extremely useful to have a method of decreasing this space for selected staves, unless perhaps there is already a way of doing this that I am not aware of.

I agree that different margins etc for the first page especially would be useful. I've found that once you really get a solid handle on what each of the various different layout parameters does, you can get what you want more often than if you just sort of randomly tweak things hoping to get them right, but still not, you can't always get it exactly. I've taken to just letting MuseScore put the title on its own page when working with larger scores, so the first page of the score doesn't need to be different, and I find I like this approach well enough that I'd be unlikely to want to switch to different spacings or scale factors for the first page just to get the title to display with the first page of the score. But I agree that MuseScore should make it possible to get that look if you want.

I also agree with this plus the ability to select and have page numbers or not on all the pages as well in the same way.

Reards, Brian

I think a fairly good solution might be to have a sort of "format-edit mode" where instead of changing the content of the score you are able to change how the content looks. For example, the ability to click and drag systems where you want them to go, the ability to click on a barline and drag it left or right to add or eliminate the space within the measure, and even with a multi-system instrument such as piano, the ability to move one of the systems up/down independent of the other so as to allow a changeble distance between the systems. Make such a setup toggleable (so you don't have to deal with general format editing while notating your music) and give it a grid or some other kind of guide lines so you can be a little more precise with your editations, and I think it would work rather well and still be fairly simple to use. Not to mention I think it would help solve the issue being discussed in this thread.