Notehead size
Would it be possible to allow the specification of notehead size, perhaps similarly to the way point sizes are specified?
My wife teaches young children and older adults, and both have problems with reading the standard size note heads. Currently I'm telling the score that it's printed on A4 paper (instead of letter), exporting it as a png, resizing the graphic in inkscape, and then printing. (SVG and pdf have fonts that keep then from being properly read from either svg or pdf files, although pdf-only programs seem to handle the pdf files properly, the ones I know of won't resize the image.) This is clearly a horrible kludge, so things would be greatly improved if I could just say "use double sized noteheads" or "use 18 point notes" or some such.
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Going to >Layout >Page settings and alter the "Space" numbers.
Regards,
In reply to Try by xavierjazz
That was I setting I used to allow me to get more enough systems on the page after I set the page size to A5 landscape, but it doesn't (didn't) change the size of the note heads.
In reply to That's the wrong setting for this by CharlesH
On my XP SP3, r 3507, Increasing the space numbers enlarges the staves and notes. However, if you enlarge it enough, it moves staves to the next page.
Regards,
In reply to That's the wrong setting for this by CharlesH
CharlesH: Changing the "space" allowed you to fit more systems on the page because it made everything smaller. "Space" is defined as the distance between two lines on a staff. If you changed the size of the space by only a fraction, you may not have noticed that it made the note heads smaller.
Sorry to revive an old thread, but I've found a workaround for resizing noteheads.
1. Select all the noteheads (eg. right click on one notehead -> Select -> All Similar Elements)
2. Open up the Inspector (F8)
3. Under 'Note', check the 'Small' box
4. Open the 'Style' menu from the menu bar -> General... -> Sizes
5. Change the 'Small note size' parameter to the desired percentage
This allows you to both increase and decrease notehead sizes.
In reply to Sorry to revive an old by theo-b
6 years ago these options didn't exist
In reply to Sorry to revive an old by theo-b
It's still a valid request, though, to have a style setting to specify a default scaling for noteheads. See #60446: Add notehead size style setting. I actually started to implement this a while back, but there were some complications in that we use the notehead width as a unit of measure in a few place, and working out how to scale things properly in those case was tripping me up a bit. It's not unsolvable, or probably even particularly difficult - just requires someone to really work through how this affects layout. I put it aside because I knew a ton about layout was about to change (the "newlayout" stuff merged a while back). Probably could be revisited safely now.
In reply to Sorry to revive an old by theo-b
Worked for me - thanks!
In reply to Sorry to revive an old by theo-b
Thank You. It was very useful. In this way, the notes are much easier to follow.
In reply to Sorry to revive an old by theo-b
How do I select a range of certain notes to be decreased in size? I did what you mentioned above and it changed the notehead size for the entire piano staves. I just want 6.5 measures of notes to be smaller...it's for Rehearsal Only. Thanks for the assist!
In reply to How do I select a range of… by b2sing4u
click first. shift+click last. right-click one, all similar in selection ...
In reply to click first. shift+click… by Jojo-Schmitz
Or do the selection as described, but use the Notes button in the Inspector rather than the right-click / select all similar elements in range selection. I'm 50/50 on which approach I use.
In reply to Or do the selection as… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you! This worked beautifully!
In reply to Or do the selection as… by Marc Sabatella
I'm 50/50 on which approach I use.
Me too. It mostly depends on if I have the inspector visible and can see the button, otherwise I right click.
In reply to Sorry to revive an old by theo-b
Brilliant work! That's using your head. This issue has been driving me crazy for along time.