Line distance in Staff Properties
I am rather new to Musescore and try to find my way in all the settings.
One thing that I stumbled upon is this Line Distance settings (when I was checking how things will look like).
I changed this setting from 1.00 to 1.10, so far so good, until there are noteheads with a 3 or more of the small "extra" lines ("hulplijntjes" in Dutch) in between two systems, then the placement of the heads is gradually getting worse!
In the handbook is written: "The distance between two staff lines, measured in spaces (abbr.: sp.). Note: It is not recommended to change this value from the default shown. If you need to make the staff larger or smaller, use the Page Settings dialog instead."
I can see now why this is not recommended, but now I wonder: why is this setting there, what is the purpose of it?
Example 1 is wrong (Line distance 1.10), example 2 is right.
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Comments
'ledger lines' is the word ;-)
The question is why do you want to use that setting?
In reply to 'ledger lines' is the word ;… by Jojo-Schmitz
Ah thanks, yes now that you mention it...
A few (ar actually 12) years ago I used Sibelius v4, and the scores I made with that have a different look, a bit "thinner" so to speak, I was trying to imitate that.
But still the question also remains what purpose has a setting that is not recommended to change, and which in effect can screw things up!
In reply to Ah thanks, yes now that you… by JeroenH1
It surely is a bug, ledger lines don't seem to follow that staff line distance. And a known bug it seems, see #307904: Ledger Lines misaligned when using arbitrary staff line distances
In reply to It surely is a bug, ledger… by Jojo-Schmitz
Ok, someone already mentioned it, good!
That closes my "complaint", thanks for this really quick response!
In reply to Ok, someone already… by JeroenH1
It adds your voice to that issue ;-)
In reply to Ah thanks, yes now that you… by JeroenH1
It has a couple of different purposes - one to create more widely spaced staves for tablature or 3-line percussion, also for various experimental notation styles. But indeed, not a setting that should normally ever be used for standard 5-line staves using conventional music notation.