Measure size
Hello I am interested in making all my measures the same size. That way I can make each line have four measures and the barlines are lined up. Is there an easy way to do this?
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Not an "easy" way, but you can select measures and use the stretch commands "{" an "}" to fiddle with sizes. Engraving references pretty universally recommend against doing this, in fact, one is normally supposed to explicitly stretch things to avoid lining up barlines between systems, because that tends to make it easy to get lost. But there are some very special situations, like lead sheets, whewre this advice is commonly ignored, so if you wish to do so, then "{" and "}" will become your friends.
In most cases, though, as I said, you are better off letting the spacing take care care of itself - a measure with eight eighth notes is supposed to be wider than one with just a whole note according to standard rules of notation. Getting four measures per line is easy - see Tools / Add/Remove System Breaks. So personally, I recommend just doing that but letting the standard measure lengths prevail.