Spacing staves to fill the page evenly
I have a score (enclosed) which varies in terms of the number of staves there are at any one time, sometimes as much as 8 but often less. Occasionally, and unfortunately, without making the score illegibly small, I can't fit two systems on one page - fair enough, but when this does happen I want the single system to fill the whole page. In other words stretch the gaps between staves, rather than place the whole system in the upper part of the page. Is this possible? Page 4 is a case in point.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Wassailing 9.9.mscz | 74.73 KB |
Comments
You could add Stave Spacers to all but the lowest stave. Select them all and enter a figure of 21 or so in Inspector until you get the effect you desire.
In reply to sa by underquark
You have achieved exactly what I wanted, and I didn't know about stave spacers, so that is a bonus, thanks. However, I was hoping there might be a way of automatically setting the score to always fill the page in a proportionate way.
My personal and probably not very popular take is this.
I printed page 11. My printer is set to A4. and the lyrics for the very bottom line were cut off. this is already a bit small for me to read, anyway. I am not a big fan of not showing all staves. I think it make this music hard to read.
Personally I would find 8 staves ( made to fill the page) much easer to read. But that may just be me.
In reply to My personal and probably not… by bobjp
My printer is set to A4. and the lyrics for the very bottom line were cut off.
Did you have A4 paper loaded in the printer tray?
MuseScore does automatically spread staves to fill the page, up to a point defined in your style settings (Format / Style / Page). By default it wouldn't stretch quite so much that your page 4 fills the page, but also, it looks like you specifically went out of your way to prevent MuseScore from stretching as much as it should, by having greatly reduced the "max staff distance" setting. Some other oddly customized settings there, too. I'd reset all those changed settings to the defaults, then re-evaluate. It will instantly look a lot better, but still, page 4 won't quite fill the entire page. To get that you'd need to increase, not *decrease", the max staff distance, but also increase the "page fill distance". Values of 30 and 40 respectively seem to do the job.
In reply to MuseScore does automatically… by Marc Sabatella
Ah, got it, Marc. Somehow must have played around with those settings earlier and in fact those controls do exactly what it says on the tin, so thanks a lot.
In reply to Ah, got it, Marc. Somehow… by Ali Wood
You're welcome! But, fair warning: the "min system distance" actually does not work correctly, at least not with vertical justification enabled, which is the whole point here. So, it's easy to confused about what these settings are doing since that one at least doesn't do what it is supposed to, so often experiments produce the wrong reults.