Repeats & Bar Lines

[dj]

Hi, James:

If you wanted to stick to a strict 5 measures per line, you could split at bar 36, instead of bar 34, leaving you with three measures in the last staff.

At the same time, it's unusual for printed music to have exactly the same number of measures per staff, as there are usually different combinations of notes in each measure, requiring different amounts of space on the page.

Sherry has rightly pointed out that Composer doesn't set up repeat sections for playback when using the segno and coda marks. If you use the repeat bar line, Composer will handle that automatically. Otherwise, you'll have to dig into the Repeat Instructions list ("qri" for "Quick Repeat Instructions") which can get complicated. Try the repeat barlines and endings solution -- I think it would be easier.

David