On May 6, 2005, at 8:13 AM, William Roberts wrote:
Good day fellow listers,
I was just embarking on the normal way I make a gap in the middle of a system for a coda (which involves creating an extra bar, then using the "hide" staff style to hide it, then fixing up the bar numbering after the extra bar), when it occurred to me that perhaps I've been missing something really obvious about how to do this all along.
Is there a slicker way of inserting a gap before a bar in the middle of a system than creating a bar that you hide with a staff style? If so, somebody please share it with me!
Actually there is a way, but you may not find it easier, especially if you have to do it in many extracted parts.
Put the Coda on its own system by using Mass Mover, select the first measure of the coda, hit the Down arrow.
In the Page Layout tool>Page Layout Menu, turn off Avoid Margin Collisions.
Shorten the system above the coda by dragging the lower right system handle to the left.
Shorten the Coda system the same way.
Drag the Coda system up and to the right so that it is beside the shortened system.
Adjust as needed. (With Avoid Margin Collisions turned off, it is possible to drag systems ANYWHERE, including on top of each other, so watch it!)
Chirstopher
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