How to fine-tune lyrics spacing
I am creating educational material with large sp units (3.5mm). I find that lyrics are often cause line breaks where my feeling is that the lyrics should easily fit on one line.
In the example lyrics_spacing.mscz, I would like to fit four measures onto one line without reducing lyrics font size. Any ideas?
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BTW, I sometimes revert to using simple staff text instead, as suggested in this post:
Is it possible to evenly space lyrics (and have notes adjust accordingly?)
However, this won't let me use hyphens and proper lyrics alignment.
Check Format > Style > Measure > Min. Note distance
In reply to Schau dir mal Formatierung >… by Jojo-Schmitz
I don't think it's the note distance. I reduced Min. Note distance to 0.0, still cannot get four measures in a line. If I delete all the lyrics, they will fit on one line.
In reply to I don't think it's the note… by kontrafuss
Note distance is at least one significant factor
You wrote:
I reduced Min. Note distance to 0.0, still cannot get four measures in a line.
When I open your attached "example lyrics_spacing.mscz" file, I see this:
![Original.png]( "Original.png")
and the Minimum note distance shows 0.55 and not 0.0 as you wrote.
To reset the default spacing to 0.20 use menu item Format -> Style -> Measure and click on the curved arrow:
![Reset_note_distance.png]( "Reset_note_distance.png")
![Result.png]( "Result.png")
Clicking on the 'Reset to default' curved arrow produces this:
Four measures per line.
(I am using MuseScore 3.6.1)
In reply to You wrote: I reduced Min… by Jm6stringer
That's what I meant. It das make a significant difference
In reply to You wrote: I reduced Min… by Jm6stringer
That's weird. If I reduce min distance to 0.0 I get a different result:
![lyrics_spacing_min_dist_00.png]( "lyrics_spacing_min_dist_00.png")
I see that your result has a different lyrics text font. Why is that? Maybe that could account for the difference?
I'm using MuseScore 3.6.0. Did 3.6.1 address spacing issues?
Both minimum note distance *and the lyrics minimum distance (in Format / Style / Lyrics) are relevant here. Also the minimum sizes and margins for dashes and melisma lines. But then, also the distance before and after barlines, etc - that's in Format / Style / Measure.
You can certainly fit more lyrics on the page by reducing all of these, but it's kind of up to you to figure out the best combination for your purpose. Anything I did that allowed four measures to fit on one line just plain doesn't look good to me - I think you simply need smaller staves. Those are enormous staves to be trying to put four measures on a single line of A4 paper.