Project – Spacings Page

The Spacings page allows you to specify the spacing and other layout aspects of objects in the score.

To open the Spacings page of the Score Settings dialog, do one of the following:

Open the Score Editor, select Scores > Settings, select the Project tab, and in the Pages list, click Spacings.
In the Score Editor, double-click to the left of a staff, select the Project tab, and in the Pages list, click Spacings.

Note

You must click Apply to apply your settings.

The following options are available on the Spacings page:

Before first Chord: The distance between the barline and the first note in each bar.
Clef Change to following Bar: The distance between a clef inserted at the beginning of a bar and the barline that comes after it.
Bar to Main Clef: The distance between the beginning of a staff and the first clef on the line.
Clef to Key Signature: The distance between the clef and key signature symbols at the beginning of a staff.
Key Signature to Time Signature: The distance between the key signature and time signature symbols at the beginning of a staff.
Time Signature Change to Bar: The distance between an inserted time signature symbol and the barline coming after it.
Note to Dot: The distance between notes and their dots.
Note to Accidental: The distance between notes and their accidentals.
Behind Grace Notes: The spacing between grace notes belonging to the same note and the spacing to the note they belong to.
Between Accidentals: The vertical distance between accidentals in a chord.
Accidentals within Key Signatures: The spacing between each accidental symbol in the group of accidentals displayed at the beginning of each staff.
Height of Ties: The height of ties.
Height of Notehead Ties: The height of a bow up/bow down symbol.
Tie Thickness: The thickness of all ties.
Slur Thickness: The thickness of all slurs.
Bezier Thickness: The thickness of all Bezier slurs.
Slur’s Start and End Distance from Notehead: Allows you to adjust how far the end points of slurs are from the noteheads they belong to.
Slur’s Middle Distance from Notehead: Allows you to adjust the vertical position of the middle of slurs.
First Bar Number - Horizontal Offset: Sets the horizontal distance between the bar number and the barline for the first bar on each staff.
First Bar Number - Vertical Offset: Sets the vertical distance between the bar number and the barline for the first bar on each staff.
Other Bar Numbers - Horizontal Offset: Sets the horizontal distance between the bar number and the barline for all other bars.
Other Bar Numbers - Vertical Offset: Sets the vertical distance between the bar number and the barline for all other bars.
Staff Separator - Horizontal Offset: Allows you to indent staff separators from the left margin.
Staff Separator - Vertical Offset: Allows you to move all staff separators vertically.
Track Name - Horizontal Offset: The horizontal distance between the track name and the beginning of the staff.
Track Name - Vertical Offset: The vertical distance between the track name and the staff.
Short Track Name - Horizontal Offset: Adjusts the horizontal distance between staves and their short track names.
Short Track Name - Vertical Offset: Adjusts the vertical distance between staves and their short track names.
Multi-Bar Rest Height: Adjusts the heights of multi-bar rest symbols.
Multi-Bar Rest Width: Adjusts the widths of multi-bar rest symbols.
Density of Note Placement: The minimum distance between chords/notes in a bar. Raising this value makes the bars wider.
Density of Lyric Placement: The minimum distance between lyric syllables. Raising this value makes the lyrics spacing wider.
Auto Space/Edit Mode: Raise this value to decrease the number of bars across the page in Edit Mode.
Default Line Width: The thickness of all lines that do not have a specific width adjustment.
Line Width [for option]: Allows you to trim the line widths for various elements in the score.