Staff distance: First page v. rest of score.
In the attached score (an excerpt of a 150 page original) I want to increase the "Staff distance" so that 2nd and subsequent systems fill the page. However the staff distance of system 1 needs to be smaller to accomodate the title bar and associated margins. There seems to be no easy way to do this. How should I proceed?
Would it be useful to have another property in the "Edit Style > Page" dialogue to allow "Staff distance" on the opening page of the score to differ from subsequent pages? Or to allow spacers to have negative values?
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I observe that there is a parameter for "minimal system distance" as well as for "maximal system distance" available. This leads to the desired effect for scores with more than one system per page. For scores like this one: Might one introduce the analogous two parameters for staff distance?
In reply to I observe that there is a by azumbrunn
This has indeed been discussed some, see for instance #61041: Negative staff spacer and especially https://musescore.org/en/node/61021. I think something like this is a good idea indeed.
In reply to This has indeed been by Marc Sabatella
@ azumbrunn. +1.
Using this suggestion:
https://musescore.org/en/node/61021#comment-279886
I came up with this:
Brandenburg_3.pdf
The trick is to create a new part with all instruments in it. Then, you can set the distances the way you want.
Save as 2 scores, then combine a pdf of the first (title) page with a pdf of the adjusted (remaining) pages.
Regards.