Space around articulation?

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Post by miker » Mon Jun 29, 2020 6:23 pm

I'm working on a hymn in Tuvaluan, which uses a couple of older practices. One of them is a double barline to mark a phrase, sort of like we would use a caesura. (In fact, Wiki mentions this practice.) The double barline is not problem, either as a shape expression, or a text expression ( / in Maestro Wide,) although the lines are a little too thick. Is there a way to add "elbow room" to this, so it bumps the adjoining notes just a little bit farther apart?
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Post by Peter Thomsen » Mon Jun 29, 2020 6:31 pm

In your post you are talking about expressions (shape expression, text expression), but your thread title uses the word articulation.
And an articulation can be included in Music Spacing:

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An articulation can be a font character articulation or a shape articulation.
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Post by motet » Mon Jun 29, 2020 8:39 pm

This was very easy using the split-measure plug-in. After running the plug-in, change the invisible barline to double.

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Post by motet » Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:00 pm

Use the measure spacing handles to adjust the space if you need to:

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Post by miker » Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:24 pm

The split is a good idea. Thanks, Motet.

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Post by zuill » Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:37 pm

Or, how about an articulation as the topic says, and Peter mentioned. A shape is the best way, as the font would not give control over the line thickness.

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Post by motet » Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:21 pm

I did this long ago with articulations for the dashed barlines. It's a situation where one part is in 2 and the other in 3, but there's only one conductor beating 3.

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Post by motet » Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:23 pm

I'm a little confused, though. If you're adding an articulation or expression to a barline to make it a double barline, why not use a double barline?

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Post by miker » Mon Jun 29, 2020 11:12 pm

You certainly could, simply by using the split measures. I’ll suggest it to him.

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