David W. Fenton wrote:
On 6 Oct 2005 at 5:53, dhbailey wrote:
Once you have gotten the majority of the music spacing as you want it,
you can turn off the Automatic Music Spacing. Then use the MassEdit
tool to select one or two measures (in the case of your "Straight"
example, two measures) and then apply spacing for just those two
measures, turning OFF Avoid Lyric Collisions, and adjust those things
manually if you need further adjusting.
It would never occur to me that anyone would leave automatic music
spacing on, but it seems to me that another option is to turn off
avoid lyric collision and space with something other than note
spacing. Generally, in my experience, one of those gives enough extra
space that the lyrics don't collide any longer.
Of course, that's not needed for the ties, since there won't be
collisions even with tight note spacing, but I've found that applying
one of the looser spacing types takes care of many problematic lyrics
situations and produces results that are satisfactory (though not
perfect) -- depends on whether or not "good enough" is good enough!
Interesting that you leave automatic music spacing off. I leave it on,
and most of the time when I get through with data entry I'm ready to
tweak the page a bit and print. Since music spacing is so quick,
leaving it on or off doesn't really save any time, but it does give me
constant feedback on how things will look on the printed page, and if I
need to adjust something I usually catch it before the whole project is
done.
Different ways of working for different people.
--
David H. Bailey
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