Brennon,
You'll figure this out pretty quickly.
You might want to turn off "Maintain System Locks" unless you have
already done some page layout work that you don't want to lose. In
my case, I save this part of my work until I have the whole piece
done in scroll view. (That's just the way I do things, and you may
want to work differently, but my way of experiencing music makes
scroll view a natural way to visualize music.) I find no advantage
in setting up system locks until I am working in page view to set up
the final look of the score (or parts). Sometimes, when setting up a
coda section, for instance, you may want to go in to the Measure
Attributes dialog and select "begin a new staff system." This can be
done in scroll view and will behave predictably when you switch to
page view.
I find no disadvantage to having "Automatic Update Layout" and
"Automatic Spacing" turned on all the time. Perhaps some others may
be able to describe circumstances in which it is better to have them
off, but I have yet to run into any.
Chuck
On Oct 22, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Brennon Bortz wrote:
On 10/21/05 10:24 PM, "Noel Stoutenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Brennon Bortz wrote:
After opening a new default document and entering notes in Speedy
Entry in
Scroll View, I switch to Page View and suddenly notes have veered
off the
edges of the page on nearly every staff. Applying any time of
music spacing
only worsens the problem? Redrawing the screen doesn't fix the
problem
either. Staff optimization does. Is optimization the ONLY way
to correct
this?
Sounds like what I had early on, too. Turned out my problem was too
many measures per system. There are a couple ways to solve the
problem. One way is to select page view (if you're not already in
that
view mode), then select the mass mover tool, click on the first
measure
of one system, and the first measure of the next system, and respace.
Another way, also in page view, with the mass mover tool selected,
is to
click on a measure in the middle of the sytem while and press the
"down
arrow" key. You might check too, that the "reflow measures across
systems is enabled. Finally, in page view, select the measure tool,
select the measures as described earlier in this paragraph, and in
the
measure tool either set the measure width to a smaller value, or
subtract some quantity form the width of each measure.
ns
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Well, I'm going to have to pick myself up off the floor and rewrite
some
material to replicate this problem. In the meantime, I can tell
you that
"Reflow Measures Across Systems (Maintain System Locks)" is
selected, but
"Automatic Update Layout" is not. All the emails I've read have me
thoroughly confused...should this be checked or not? What are the
disadvantages, if any, of checking this?
Thanks again,
Brennon
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B. Christopher Bortz
Graduate Student, Music Composition
University of California, Riverside
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