More formatting woes

[Sherry C]

Hi,

Originally Posted by wwwpdx

The pages after page 1 do not take the format of the 1st page. The vertical spacing is larger etc. Am I missing some function here? Is there a solution?

There is a lot of flexibility in the formatting area. If you have not yet seen the Tutorial Video on Formatting, I would strongly suggest watching that as a first step to learning about the most commonly used tools (and some tips and tricks, too). You can find that at http://www.notation.com/vb-forum/showthread.php?t=3725

If the video doesn't help you figure it out, please do post a copy of the file here, and let us know what you're trying to do with it.

ttfn,
Sherry

[wwwpdx]

Originally Posted by Sherry C

Hi,



There is a lot of flexibility in the formatting area. If you have not yet seen the Tutorial Video on Formatting, I would strongly suggest watching that as a first step to learning about the most commonly used tools (and some tips and tricks, too). You can find that at http://www.notation.com/vb-forum/showthread.php?t=3725

If the video doesn't help you figure it out, please do post a copy of the file here, and let us know what you're trying to do with it.

ttfn,
Sherry

Thanks for trying, but my prob not solved.
It seems that all the pages of a score should format the same as the 1st page.
I'm just trying to save a tree.

[dj]

Hi,

The idea behind the page layout mechanism was to have Composer lay things out the way it thinks they best fit the page, then allow the user to move things as they wish to satisfy their need.

One good starting point is to re-set your format to the default (Layout/Page Layout/Def). This should set your pages to roughly the same, give or take a couple of bars.

You can move staves and bars from one page to another with the tools in the Page Layout toolbar. You can also manually set the number of bars displayed, not just per page, but per staff, using "Specify number of bars per line tool (bpl)". And, finally, you can move staves up or down on the page (and whole pages of staves) using "Move barlines and staves in select mode (enter)" and dragging the boxes that appear. That screen also lets you (in a limited way) drag individual barlines across the staff, to space measures out.

It's not a fully automatic procedure, but then musical notation is so different from bar to bar that it's hard for a program to outguess the composer.

Good luck.

David

[kknollman]

I am having a similar problem. It appears that Composer is trying to automatically set the vertical spacing on a page to fill the page. If there are 6 systems on a page, because that is what develops as a result of my setting the font size, Composer sets the vertical spacing between staves in each system and between each system to look good. If there are only 4 systems left for the last page, however, it stretches the vertical spacing between staves and between systems to fill the whole page, which looks terrible. Is there a way to force the vertical spacing to remain the same on all pages? I viewed the video, but found no discussion on how to do that. I have attached a score to demonstrate.
Thanks.

[Sherry C]

Hi,

If you would like to change the way the systems are distributed among pages (and I've been doing that myself on a big band arrangement today ), you can use the Page Layout/Insert Page Break button (or System break) to break up the system distribution more the way that you would like them.

Since a picture is worth a lot of words, I'll point you to the Users Guide (Help/Users Guide) and you can use the Index to look up "layout" or "page layout" for step-by-step instructions to massaging the score the way you want it to look. Musician and Composer offer a lot of tools to help you get it perfect for you (which is good, because some of my instrumentalists want it all on one page, while others want everything spelled out really big, and therefore on multiple pages ).

ttfn,
Sherry