Documents side by side ...

• Feb 18, 2022 - 13:28

Hello,

I am new on Musescore and I have encountered a small problem with the displays in order to use it correctly :

If I try to open 2 documents side by side on musescore, I get 4 documents. And Musescore is not able to separate this documents for example:
1 documents on the left screen
1 documents on the right screen

Best regards ^_^

Thi

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Don't use the side-by-side monitors to 'duplicate' the same screen (so you get 4 docs), rather use the second monitor as an 'extension' of the first. Then you can re-size the entire MuseScore window across the 2 monitors.
The "borderline" which separates document 1 and document 2 can be dragged to coincide with the mid-point of the 2 screens, so document 1 is on the left screen and document 2 is on the right screen.

In Windows, here are the choices to project to a second screen:
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You want 'Extend'.

With that setup you can have doc 1 left and doc 2 right, in the forground, the other in the background. And that's what you have. In that mode, MuseScore works that way, it is mostly usefiull for copy/pasting stuff from one part of a doc to another of the same doc

You don't get 4 documents, you got two views and each view allows you to select which (part of which) document you'd like to see inside it.

Use the second screen as an extension of the first, not a duplicate. You then extend the MuseScore window across both screens. Then you adjust doc 1 to fill screen 1 and doc 2 to fill screen 2.
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You wrote:
If I try to open 2 documents side by side on musescore, I get 4 documents. And Musescore is not able to separate this documents for example:
1 documents on the left screen
1 documents on the right screen

Do you have 2 screens? What are also known as monitors?
-OR-
Do you mean "left screen" as "left side of the screen"?

In reply to by nebeye.thi

So you want two separate instances of MuseScore and not a side-by-side view within the main window.
The current workaround would be to launch the installed version and a portable version to work around this.

I know that multi-window/instance has been discussed for MS4; but I'm not sure it was implemented or not.

What do you mean by "all documents are attached to each other"?

Can't you extend the MuseScore display across 2 monitors, then adjust the documents to display on separate monitors?

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In reply to by nebeye.thi

Because as mentioned before, you're not seeing 4 documents, but the same 2 documents are available in each view.
One of the main reasons for this is that you can do side-by-side with 1 document to easily copy and paste across from different positions in the (long) score.

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