Measure numbers in 4.2.1
I'm used to and I prefer measure numbers below the staves. But can't figure out how to get that:
Switching Format > Style > Measure numbers: Vertical Alignment to Below will set the measure numbers only below the first stave, but not below the whole system. And adjusting the Y factor won't help either, because it only broadens the gap between the first and the following staves. Being a piano player who usually has two staves, this means I can never set bar numbers below the system.
Sorry for my use of technical terms - I'm not a native English speaker and don't use the English GUI of MS.
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If you go to Format ==> Style and in this very long list select Bar numbers (I' using an English version of MS but it should be 5th from the top, see attached snapshot. Here you can decide where you want to the bar / measure numbers formatted. In the attached snapshot which is based on a large score I'm currently working on, I've selected to get the number for each measure and each stave for navigation reasons. When the score is finished, I will set it to show the bar number at the top for each new page only.
![BarNumbers.png]( "BarNumbers.png")
First: why don't you ask in the German part of the forum - in German? I would also like to reply in German :-). Maybe tommy_strandberg too ...
Second: you can easily change the language settings in MuseScore to English and later back to German resp. System.
Regading your question (done with MuS 3 but it is similar to MuS 4):
Result:
In reply to First: why don't you ask in… by HildeK
German is not my mother tongue because I'm born i Sweden but live in Germany, GB and the US since many many years. Speaking German is, of course, no problem but I prefer writing in English, it's just quicker and simpler for me. In Space Engineering, building and operating satellites, English is the language number one and German I write rather sparely. Hence, all my PC programs are in English.
In reply to German is not my mother… by TomStrand
Ok, I just guessed it from your e-mail address. First impressions are not always right :-).
In reply to First: why don't you ask in… by HildeK
But you lose this formatting as soon as something causes the measures to change including adding or inserting a measure, deleting a measure, or even if you enter notes that cause a line to have fewer measures than it currently has.
In reply to But you lose this formatting… by underquark
Yes, if you insert or append a measure, the measure number of this new measure is not hidden. You have to do this separately. But if you delete a measure or enter notes, nothing changes - at least that's how it is in MuseScore 3.
But as far as I know, I can't place measure numbers at the bottom of the page below the last instrument, as is the case in some scores. That would be a feature request ...
In reply to First: why don't you ask in… by HildeK
Well, as a piano player in a big band, I have to watch a lot of symbols at the same time. Wanted measure numbers per measure, but didn't succeed in getting them below the system. So inserted only the very first per system which was OK in some sort - you'll have to count a little if the band leader wants to start rehearsal on a specific bar.
So thanks for your hints! I'd never have found that solution on my own: Activate bar numbers for all staves and then switch them individually and manually (?) to invisible. Not my humour.
I just wrote one song to see if it's worth the effort because of better readability (me getting older - and it is!) but I won't end up manually disabling 160 appearances of bar numbers (~80 bars with two staves) I activated while not needing them - for every song I transcribe.
So indeed, I'd request that feature that bar numbers which aren't set for every stave but switched to below would automatically be set to below the last stave in the system (Y being calculated from the last staff in the system) - with no change in the GUI! This would be a great deal for me and probably a lot of other writers for big band music. What if I wanted to write a direction sheet and then extract the single parts? That would result in disabling and enabling measure numbers all the time, wouldn't it?
Thank you all!
In reply to Well, as a piano player in a… by F. Ziegler
Yes, it is not implemented.
And the workaround I described applies to the numbers under the bass staff of a piano or if a score with multiple instruments should have the numbers at the bottom of the page. You don't have to do this individually, but you do need a few steps:
I think the individual parts will have the measures as defined in the score, but visible. And they will have them regardless of my description for the score layout. You won't have to do anything except in a piano excerpt (Grand Staff).