Help with inserting text amongst the music for a hymn

• Nov 27, 2015 - 17:23

I'm trying to insert 5 verses of a hymn in amongst the music but there is not enough room between the staves for the 5th verse.; the words of which end up being typed over the notes of music.
Please can you help me find a way to drag the bottom stave down to be able to create more room between the staves.

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• Nov 27, 2015 - 18:11

As far as I can tell by looking at your score in MuseScore 2.0.2, there are several problems with it:

  • The first two verses are for voice 2 (green once selected) and the other three verses are for voice 1 (blue once selected). In ver. 2.0.2 (and probably in earlier versions too), the program expects the first verse to be in voice 1; if the first verse is in voice > 1 and is followed by verses in voice 1, bad things may happen in layout (this has been fixed in the development version and the next release will be more tolerant).
  • The style definitions for odd lyrics lines and for even lyrics lines are different in size (14pt vs. 11pt) and in vertical offset (7sp vs. 6sp). This makes for the odd sizes and placements of the various lines of text.
  • Incidentally, some of the syllables have been manually moved around (possibly in an attempt to place them in a more useful place). This is legitimate in itself, but can make difficult to correct the layout through format commands.

Also given that the amount of text entered is not too much yet, my suggestion is:

  1. Change the two text styles to use the same font size and vertical offset.
  2. Delete all the text syllables.
  3. Re-enter them all as belonging to the first voice.
  4. Optionally, re-style them all as "Lyrics Odd Lines" text style.

All text lines will line-up correctly one below the other and the second staff will go down at each new verse to make room for it.

At any rate, try the latest version, as Shoichi suggested: it is a big improvement and it can peacefully co-exist with your current version (as a safety measure; one never knows...).

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• Nov 27, 2015 - 18:44

Miwarre, your first bullet point says that this bug is fixed in the latest dev version. I don't think it is. At least when I load the sample score in 7321ba6 I see the same as 2.02. And I just tried creating a new score under the latest build, with verse 1 in voice 2, and verse 2 in voice 1, and it still doesn't space properly.

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