how to space staves evenly
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i'm wondering if there is a edit staff margins tool, similar to the edit system margins tool so i can add space in between each stave equally, rather than dragging each one by hand
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Staff Tool.
Staff menu > Respace Staves…
Staff menu > Respace Staves…
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for some reason the respace staves tool is not having any effect on my score..
i have a pretty large score with maybe about 20 instruments, it fills up about 3/4 of the page however i want to space the staves evenly to fill the rest of the page but can't seem to do it. i select all of the staves on the page and use the respace staves too, and choose distance between staves: set to 1.5. not sure what the number represents, probably inches or something, but the staves don't move. i've also tried increasing the percentage and that doesn't seem to move the staves at all either.
any idea as to what is going on or how to get a result? what is a good 'set to' value for an orchestral score?
i have a pretty large score with maybe about 20 instruments, it fills up about 3/4 of the page however i want to space the staves evenly to fill the rest of the page but can't seem to do it. i select all of the staves on the page and use the respace staves too, and choose distance between staves: set to 1.5. not sure what the number represents, probably inches or something, but the staves don't move. i've also tried increasing the percentage and that doesn't seem to move the staves at all either.
any idea as to what is going on or how to get a result? what is a good 'set to' value for an orchestral score?
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According to your signature you are using Finale 2010.
My guess is that you have "Allow Individual Staff Spacing" enabled in that particular staff system.
Disable "Allow Individual Staff Spacing" (in Page Layout menu > Systems > Allow…), and the command "Respace Staves…" should work.
My guess is that you have "Allow Individual Staff Spacing" enabled in that particular staff system.
Disable "Allow Individual Staff Spacing" (in Page Layout menu > Systems > Allow…), and the command "Respace Staves…" should work.
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How would I do it in Finale 2012? also can't get my staves spaced evenly. I don't see the "Allow Individual Staff Spacing" here.Peter Thomsen wrote:According to your signature you are using Finale 2010.
My guess is that you have "Allow Individual Staff Spacing" enabled in that particular staff system.
Disable "Allow Individual Staff Spacing" (in Page Layout menu > Systems > Allow…), and the command "Respace Staves…" should work.
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itamarerez,itamarerez wrote:…How would I do it in Finale 2012? also can't get my staves spaced evenly. I don't see the "Allow Individual Staff Spacing" here…
In my own copy of Finale 2012 the command “Respace Staves” works.
To find out what is going on in your Finale document, we may need to see an actual (small) Finale sample document.
Before you can attach a .mus document in this forum, you must compress it, e. g. as a .zip file.
And the file size must not be more than max. 100 KB.
To reduce the file size you can clear out everything - we only need to see the staves in an empty document.
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No, that's spacing Systems, not staves. Systems are all the staves in one continuous line of music on the page.mikeyA wrote:In Finale PrintMusic 2014, you can also space the staves with the Page Layout tool.
Page Layout Tool > Page Layout Menu > Space Systems Evenly
You might have two systems on page, whose positions must be spaced with the Page Layout Tool. Each of those may have four staves, whose relative distance apart is spaced with the Staff Tool.