Vertical offset on multiple objects
I'm writing out a guitar exercise for guitar w/standard notation + tablature, and in an effort to fit the entire thing onto two pages, I have scaled the staff spacing down to .921mm. The notation looks fine, but the numbers in the tablature are all offset from their respective lines by an equal amount. If I could select them all and move them all at once back onto the lines, it would fix the problem.
Is there a way to select multiple objects for vertical offset? I have tried selecting multiple objects and double-clicking, and selecting multiple objects and clicking "edit element" from the right-click menu. In both cases, it just reverts back to the selection of a single object.
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Something seems wrong, but it's impossible to tell what from just a picture. If you attach your score itself, we can understand and assist better.
Edit Element, btw, is just for making adjustments to a single element, it's the same as double-clicking. To select all notes, right-click one, Select / All Similar Elements. But this shouldn't be necessary here, everything should scale automatically. So we'd need the actual score to understand what went wrong and how to fix it correctly.
BTW, 0.921 mm is tiny. It's going to be awfully hard to read that once printed out.
In reply to Something seems wrong, but… by Marc Sabatella
"BTW, 0.921 mm is tiny. It's going to be awfully hard to read that once printed out."
I was worried about that, and honestly I was baiting the community to see if anyone would confirm that size as being too small. I'll scale it back up and play around with other formatting options to see if I can fit it into two pages by other means.
When I scale it up, the numbers in the tablature line back up where they should be; the problem corrects itself, but I'll attach the score anyway in case there is another fix that might be helpful to someone else.
In reply to "BTW, 0.921 mm is tiny. It's… by sethplaysguitar
Hmm, seems to be a bug, probably we aren't calculating the height of the fret numbers correctly when figuring out how to center them on the string, and somehow this error magnifies as you scale up or down. Could you submit this to the issue tracker, using Help / Report a Bug (from within MuseScore), or Support / Issue tracker (from this site)?
Meanwhile, as a workaround, I think maybe instead of changing the offset of the notes, maybe it makes more sense to do it in Staff/Part Properties, Advanced Style Properties. I don't know, either way you'll have to undo the adjustment if/when the bug is fixed.
As for fitting this much music on two pages, good luck! :-) I'd consider just splitting the standard and tab into separate sheets.
In reply to Hmm, seems to be a bug,… by Marc Sabatella
I hadn't thought of splitting two notations–thanks for the suggestion! I think I'll end up keeping them together though, so it looks like I'm going to to just have to accept the three-page reality. As an aside, I'm new to Musescore, and this forum has been impressively helpful; I'll definitely be actively using and recommending this program, and I'll certainly report this issue as a bug. Thanks again!