User interface - Staves
I know that the present method allows great control, but as a user, I would prefer a simpler way to set the layout.
Tonight I am writing a lead sheet, cut time, 32 bars with a 2 beat pickup. Not many notes, simple.
I would like to be able to specify, " 1 page (1/2 page), 8 staves, 1st stave to be five bars to include the pickup".
At the moment I am required to do the tedious calculations that I feel the computer should do. I now have to use spacers and set various parameters to get a layout that should be very simple.
One way would be to ask, "How many bars to the page?" and then fully fill a page with that number of bars. (e.g. 33, 500, etc.).
Warm regards.
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Seems like a good idea for a plugin
In reply to Plugin by Thomas
Can you direct me to any information on writing plugins.
I am not a programmer.
Thanks.
I have discovered that by going to: Style>General style>System, there is a tool for setting the number of bars per system.
Hooray!
The suggestion is that this be moved to the Measure section rather than the System section - I believe it is more intuitive.
Regards.
In reply to For those interested, and a suggestion by xavierjazz
It has been added for the next version 0.9.6, so it's only available in the prereleases for the moment.
Btw, it does not deal with your special case of "1st stave to be five bars".
When we will have #2551: Access to selection in plugins, we can imagine a plugin to deal with this requirement, by positioning a break every X measures.
In reply to It has been added for the by [DELETED] 5
It would be useful to be able to change the number of bars per stave. For example, the requirement I mentioned, where I want 4 bars per stave, except for the fist stave which, because of a pick up bar, should have 5 bars so that the visual structure matches the musical structure,
Regards.
In reply to Bars in staves. by xavierjazz
I totally agree with this. Right now I'm doing a piece, and I'm trying to retain as much from the original page layout as I can. Meaning:
- first system should contain the first five bars
- second system should contain next four
- third ... (following the original)
Maybe like this: select x bars, right click, and select 'group in one system'..?
In reply to I totally agree with this. by mouk
You know you can use Break or spacer breaks and reduce the size of measure with Layout->Less stretch?
In reply to You know you can use layout by [DELETED] 5
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I would love to, but many shortcuts just do not work for me, among them the add/remove stretch ones.
Here's a link to one of the threads in which I have tried to sole this.
Any help would be appreciated.
http://musescore.org/node/3712
Regards.
In reply to I would love to, but by xavierjazz
There is are menu items for the measure stretch under Layout.
In reply to There is are menu items for by David Bolton
But the layout window closes every time stretch is selected which rapidly becomes very tedious.
In reply to There is are menu items for by David Bolton
Is there anything I can do to try to resolve this. The most aggravating aspect for me is the lack of stretch and the non-working Ctrl+M.
Thanks.
In reply to You know you can use layout by [DELETED] 5
Also, on further thought, this really doesn't address how unintuitive the interface is.
Regards.