Option to auto-fill a number of page
This is a feature request.
Add an option 'Auto-fill pages'.
So if a score would take 3,2 pages with standard stretch and spacing, using this option it would automatically be fit on 3 pages.
When you add measures and notes, the stretching would automatically increase to stay on 3 pages.
When you add more, the auto number would jump from 3 to 4.
You could also have an option to only increase the spacing, so that the piece of 3,2 pages "standard spacing" would be extended to 4 pages.
Comments
I vote for this request for the reasons I explain in detail in the discussion here:
https://musescore.org/en/node/239416#comment-760231
Just a summary:
1) Most publishing houses fill all pages, including the last one of a piece or movement
2) The current solution (to increase the system distance a bit) is not esthetical
In reply to I vote for this request for by fmiyara
FYI adjusting system distance is not really the right way to do this in general. It would only work if things are pretty close to fitting already. Instead, the better solution is to use a combination of changing staff size and changing the music spacing / stretch factors. It's something best done by a human who can take into consideration the most logical places for line and page breaks based on the music content etc. So I wouldn't expect too much from any automated facility - if you care enough enough to want a feature like this at all, it's very likely you'll care enough to want to override the defaults and make your own choices. But FWIW, it probably wouldn't be too difficult to write plugin to make an attempt at doing this automatically.
In reply to FYI adjusting system distance by Marc Sabatella
I think much human work would be spared with an algorithm that could take into consideration, in this order, 1) suggested places for turning the page (could be a property of measures), 2) automatically decided places for turning the page considering duration of notes in one or both hands, rests, breaths, fermatas, etc.
Besides, it would be relatively easy to take into account the note surface density (number of notes per staff per staff size). Then the algorithm could attempt to fill a whole number of pages under the constraint of a minimum and maximum density (the constraint might be weighted by a function that increases as the number of notes per measure decreases, so that a single whole note in a measure would admit less density than a semiquaver burst). This could help in getting a reasonable homogeneous layout. If no solution is found, the algorithm could inform so, and only in those cases one one would have to get back to the old manual style of work.