Altering space between staff lines
I have written out some music using Musescore and I now want to enlarge the space between the staff lines to make the music clearer. However, when I do that, all my notes are in the wrong place! Any ideas if I can fix this without re writing the whole lot out again!
Thanks sue
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Also, How do I make the space between staff lines smaller for the whole score? Sorry - I'm fairly new to Musescore and find it quite hard to find the answers in the handbook!
In reply to Also, How do I make the… by SueNdola
The space between staff lines, the 5 lines of a normal staff, is controlled by https://musescore.org/en/handbook/page-settings#scaling. This basically sets the size for entire score, almost any setting is expressed in that unit.
The distance between 2 staves (in a system) is controlled by https://musescore.org/en/handbook/layout-and-formatting#distance-betwee…, between systems by https://musescore.org/en/handbook/layout-and-formatting#distance-betwee…
In reply to Also, How do I make the… by SueNdola
Try using Palette/ Breaks & Spacers/ Staff spacer up and Staff Spacer down. It has worked for me.
As always, try first on a trial score :-).
Let's say you want to separate two staves, an "upper" and a "lower".
Click on the "upper" staff, select Staff Spacer Down, open the Inspector (View/ Inspector) and change (increase) the "height" value. You'll see the "lower" staff (and others below) move down. The same way you can reduce (up to a limit) the spacing between staves. Staff Spacer Up works in a similar way.
I haven't tried with "double" piano staves (G and F clefs) but it might also work. Hope it works for you.
In reply to Try using Palette/ Breaks &… by IGMartin
Thank you for your replies...I think I have learnt the hard way to try out my line spacing before entering all the notes onto the staff! I don't seem to be able to alter the space between the 5 lines of the staff
now I've entered the notes!!
In reply to Thank you for your replies… by SueNdola
Sure you can. Just go to Layout / Page Settings and change the "Staff space" setting. This is the fundamental scaling setting in MuseScore; everything scales according to this. So everything should just work fine.
In reply to Sure you can. Just go to… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you - I've managed to enlarge everything...now is there a way that I can make the bars smaller in order to fit onto one line (I'm trying to write out scales - Major and minor on one line!
Thanks so much and sorry to be thick!!
In reply to Thank you - I've managed to… by SueNdola
Well, you could enlarge by less. But if you think there is enough room at the current size, you can select all (Ctrl+A) then decrease stretch by pressing "{" (or Layout / Decrease Stretch) as many notches as necessary. Be sure you don't have a line break preventing more measures from fitting, though.
If you continue to have trouble, please attach your score so we can understand and help better.
In reply to Well, you could enlarge by… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks again. I've used the stretch, but can't get it small enough! I'm going to try and attach file so you can see what I mean. I have fiddled about with distance to accidentals and also minimum bar width, but I'm not sure that either seem to have worked...or at least it seems to work with some bars and not others!!!
In reply to Thanks again. I've used the… by SueNdola
See (I cleaned up a bit eg with some unexpected 5 measures in Bbminor, I don't know if I done well, and an empty measure, not sure what was the goal) : Scales.mscz
Or (after removal of same C scale as in the start) : Scales1.mscz
But this file would be more comfortable with a 2 pages layout.
NB: I fixed some mistakes in A scale. Remains others eg in F#m (and maybe elsewhere, no heard/checked all)
In reply to See (I cleaned up a bit eg… by cadiz1
Thanks Cadiz1. Yes it was a work in progress as I used the keyboard to enter the notes and was trying to sort out the enharmonic!!! I tried cutting a couple of bars and was going to reenter them to see if that helped - hence the empty bar....Really appreciate you time and effort
Sue
In reply to Thanks Cadiz1. Yes it was a… by SueNdola
Okay. So, now, and for the future, the best advice is, first, to enter really completely your score/ here scales, before finalize the wished layout.
Everything in its time :)
NB: at this stage - ie complete score entered- you could re-attach it if other difficulty.
In reply to Thanks again. I've used the… by SueNdola
Right have minimum note distance set to 0, which is really not acceptable - it leads to problems like the C# hitting D in the middle of the ascending D major scale. The bottom line is, even with literally no space between notes, trying to put that many notes on one line at this size is just not physically possible for scales with lots of accidentals. You'll need either smaller print or bigger paper (or smaller margins on the paper).