On Apr 30, 2004, at 5:59 AM, Barbara Touburg wrote:
First, with shift-gray-plus, I add extra room to allow for the "margins" in the middle of the split measure (don't know the correct vocabulary since I'm Dutch). Then, I force the second half of the measure down one system. If the measure "margins" still aren't right, I switch to scroll view and adjust the split point from there - much easier to see what one's doing. Then back to page view and judge the result. And perhaps repeat those two steps several times, till I'm satisfied. Works fine for me.
It was a while ago, but I remember that scroll view wasn't much help because Page View had compressed the measure quite a bit to fit, and that wasn't visible in Scroll View. Since that compression was exactly what I was trying to make look better, Scroll View was no help.
In retrospect, I'm thinking I could have changed measure widths to whatever the justification was already compressing them to and then I would have been OK. I've never found an easy way to identify justified measure widths, but in that case it might have been worth while to sit down and do the math.
Incidentally, I'd find that a useful plug-in: A function whereby I can select measures and the plug-in will determine what the actual measure width is on the page view, including whatever adjustment justification has done to expand or compress the measure to fit the system, and then write those widths as the measures' actual widths. It's sort of technical, I know, but I've run into several situations where it would have been helpful.
Another way of looking at it is that after the plug-in is run, selected measures will look exactly the same in Scroll View as they do in Page View.
mdl
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