Question about spacing staves

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Hector Pascal
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Post by Hector Pascal » Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:51 pm

Hi all,

In my SSAATTBB vocal score, I'd like to space my staves (with lyrics) as closely as possible, yet avoiding any collisions with above-stave dynamics, crescendi. etc. Is there a setting or automated way of achieving this? Currently, I am spacing each stave by eye. I can get 16 staves on the page well enough, though I'd like to keep them compacted so that I have some room betwixt the systems.

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H.


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Post by miker » Fri Jan 25, 2019 3:09 am

Staff tool > Respace staves

This will allow you to space them alike. Some manual tweaking might still be needed.
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Post by motet » Fri Jan 25, 2019 4:29 am

If you're asking if something will space according to hairpins, dynamics, lyrics, etc., I'm afraid not.

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