Shorten length of final system
As I finish up my score, I noticed that the final system of music is stretched to fit the full width of the page. However, that stretches the notes very far apart relative to the previous systems in the score. Is there a way to make the final system not stretch across the entire page, so that the notes can be similar to their spacing in the previous systems? I tried changing the "last system filled threshold" in the Page Settings, but it didn't do anything significant.
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append a horizontal frame and size that to your needs
In reply to append a horizontal frame… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you for the advice but ... what is a horizontal frame and where do I find it? I'm still fairly new at this.
In reply to Thank you for the advice but… by SisterM
1 year and 3 months is not exactly new ;-)
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/frames
Also see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/layout-and-formatting#style-edit-gene… esp. Last System Theshold
In reply to see https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
Okay, it worked! I selected the last measure and chose "append horizontal frame," then I increased the width until the music looked correct again. Thank you very much!
BTW, "last system fill threshold" does do something significant, and could also be a solution. As the name implies, this is a threshold - if the last system is more full than this, it stretches to fill the page, otherwise it doesn't. So the way to keep your system from stretching is to make sure it doesn't exceed the threshold - raise the threshold to 100%, for instance.