I generally enter numbers into the page layout tool dialog boxes.
You can find them by pulling down the page layout menu and finding
"edit system margins"
Then you'll get a dialog box with places to enter distances before,
after, above, and below each staff system, and "distance between
systems".
I generally leave all of them blank except for the "distance
between..." and that takes care of most of my positioning needs.
It's best to control system size (reduction) from the choices under
the page layout menu.
You will see in the "edit system margins" dialog box, a place to
choose which system(s) are affected by your choices. Using that
correctly helps to control the look of all the systems.
Play with this a little, and you should get the hang of it.
Hope this helps.
Chuck
On Jan 4, 2006, at 7:21 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
I work on baroque music, so I typically do data entry first, then
clean up after I have done all my proof-reading.
Usually I have to use the page layout tool to reduce the size of
the systems to get at least 2 on a page.
Typically what I do is tweak the sizing a bit, and once I'm happy,
I manually adjust the first page by dragging and seeing how things
look.
My question involves the subsequent pages---is there a trick or
technique to making sure all the pages are uniform in how the
systems lay out on the pages?
In other words, so when you go from page to page, the systems don't
jiggle around (because you didn't place them in the right spot).
My technique is to zoom on each page, use grids and snap the system
to it, and tweak it that way.
Is there an easier way or am I doing this correctly.
--
Kim Patrick Clow
"There's really only two types of music: good and bad." ~ Rossini
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