Measure spacing

Hello Lee, I moved a bit 'with Layout increase/decrease stretch...
Consider: as in a word processor spacing depends on the dimensions character

To be clear: Reset Stretch is not a magic "align barlines command". It simply removes the stretch you had already manually applied, returning measures t their default state. That is, the only reaosn they weren't aligning before is that you had previously forced them not to by increasing or decreasing stretrch in some measures. Perhaps this was inadvertent, but anyhow, that's all Reset Stretch does - return things to the default state.

Anyhow, the default width of a measure does indeed depend on the content. Measures with notes in them are wider than those without, as per standard rules of music notation. really, standard notation would ask you to *not* align barlines, because this can make it harder to keep your place, but I do understand that chord charts are a special case and that many people like to break this rule for these.

So, I'd start by adding slashes everywhere to get closer to equal measure widths. You can hide them where you want them, but why not keep them visible everywhere? That's more standard anyhow.

You;ll see see some measures with slashes are wider than others, because they also have chord symbols that are taking up additional space. By default, MuseScore adds space for chord symbols to keep them from overlapping, and this causes measure 10 (for example) to be wider than it would be without the chord symbols. You can defeat that automatic spacing by going to Style / General / Chord Symbols and setting the minimum spacing to some large negative number.

I can't think of a great way to literally center the chords. You could play with tricks like entering two half rests and attaching the chord symbols to the second of them, but this is too far to the right, so youd need a negative horizontal offset and the specific amount would might still be dependent on the width of the measure. But, much less so. In fact, if you enter two half rests, attach the chord symbols to the second one, and have a horizontal offset of -2sp, it looks pretty decent with 3-6 measures on the system. but then if you *do* need two chords per measure, the first will be 2sp too far to the left. When really, you'd want it further to the right.

Personally, I'd give up on centering and let the chords be left aligned - maybe a horizontal offset ot 1-2sp. Less fuss, and I think it's actually clearer too - it's more obvious the chord change happens at the beginning of the measure, not some arbitrary place in the middle of it. Again, this is most apparent when mixing measures of a single chord with measures that have two chords. The centered chord would be indistintinguishable form a chord that changed mid-measure and would likely confuse the reader.