Reduce measure stretch (drastically)

• Feb 7, 2019 - 22:43

In the score that I've attached (time signature 6/8), is there a way to reduce the width of the measures in order to have 2 of them per line?
Or, at least (since they're truly wide measures), is there a way to squeeze only the 3/8 measure (8th in the row) to have it in the same line with the preceding one?
Thank you very much.

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Comments

Jm6stringer

• Feb 7, 2019 - 23:40

In Page Settings reduce Scaling to 1.100mm
Wear magnification lenses during performance?

Polidoros Stavropoulos

• Feb 8, 2019 - 11:41

Reduce scaling is OUT OF THE QUESTION! Many disadvantages.
I found the solution:
(a) In each measure : Measure properties --> Layout stretch=0.80
(b) Select measures --> Select: Notes --> Set: Chord Horizontal Offset = -0,5sp. Voila! It all comes to place without reducing the size of the notes! You may then alter some Layout Stretches to your best convenience.
No need for lenses during performance!

I really think that the Muse Score team should propose this solution to the users and add it to the users' manual.

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Jm6stringer

• Feb 8, 2019 - 12:58

Nice effort!

Setting measure properties and horizontal offsets are already mentioned in the handbook.
So...
For your extreme case, i.e. drastically reducing measure stretch, you can create a "'How to".
See:
https://musescore.org/en/howto?version=2.x
(Looks like you're using MuseScore 2)