Make additional common sheet music sizes available in Page Settings

• May 5, 2016 - 04:31
Reported version
2.2
Type
Graphical (UI)
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore

I'm filing this feature request after a PR is already submitted, rather than the other way around, but feedback would be appreciated in order to get this right. MuseScore supports a bunch of standard page sizes, and allows users to customize them. But there are a certain class of non-standard page sizes that MuseScore doesn't currently offer by default, that I think it should—namely, sheet music sizes!

Sibelius and Finale both pre-define common sizes for orchestral parts, marching band flip folder parts, and choral scores, that MuseScore is currently lacking. I realize there is no real precise official standard, but if anybody is willing to measure their flip folders and so on, I'd appreciate a check if formatting for these sizes would be approximately correct:

- 9 x 12 inches for concert parts
- 6.75 x 5.25 inches for flip folders (landscape, not portrait; incidentally see also #100221: Make Page Settings "Landscape" checkbox into proper "Portrait/Landscape" radio buttons)
- 6.75 x 10.5 inches for the choral octavo size
- 5.75 x 8.25 inches for hymns

Pull request: https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2586

Comments

• May 5, 2016 - 08:00

+1 from me. There are some translation issues though, worth being discussed, IMHO the sizes and units should not get translated, and know a few of the names, those that are not defined by an international standard, and the additions at hand here seem to be the ones to translate

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