More formatting woes

[dj]

Hi, again:

I just noted that you and I both joined this forum in December of 1969, which means that we must have both been connected to the old U.S. military Arpanet. I don't remember having a PC at home when I was 13, though.

David

[Sherry C]

Howdy guys,

Not trying to duck anything here, but the most common scenarios we've run into with customers who suddenly have formatting problems where they haven't before is that Windows has updated something (sometimes automagically) that causes problems and/or the printer driver needs to be updated. Could either (or both) of those be a possibility here David? Typically for such situations, updating the printer drivers takes care of the problem.

Originally Posted by dj

I just noted that you and I both joined this forum in December of 1969, which means that we must have both been connected to the old U.S. military Arpanet. I don't remember having a PC at home when I was 13, though.

David

You always were a precocious one, though

ttfn,
Sherry

[herbert]

Hi David,

You said:

“I just noted that you and I both joined this forum in December of 1969, which means that we must have both been connected to the old U.S. military Arpanet. I don't remember having a PC at home when I was 13, though.”

Interesting - The internet does not only influence our future but also changes our past.

Herbert.

[wwwpdx]

The pages after page 1 do not take the format of the 1st page. The vertical spacing is larger etc. Am I missing some function here? Is there a solution?

[Sherry C]

Hi,

Originally Posted by wwwpdx

The pages after page 1 do not take the format of the 1st page. The vertical spacing is larger etc. Am I missing some function here? Is there a solution?

There is a lot of flexibility in the formatting area. If you have not yet seen the Tutorial Video on Formatting, I would strongly suggest watching that as a first step to learning about the most commonly used tools (and some tips and tricks, too). You can find that at http://www.notation.com/vb-forum/showthread.php?t=3725

If the video doesn't help you figure it out, please do post a copy of the file here, and let us know what you're trying to do with it.

ttfn,
Sherry

[wwwpdx]

Originally Posted by Sherry C

Hi,



There is a lot of flexibility in the formatting area. If you have not yet seen the Tutorial Video on Formatting, I would strongly suggest watching that as a first step to learning about the most commonly used tools (and some tips and tricks, too). You can find that at http://www.notation.com/vb-forum/showthread.php?t=3725

If the video doesn't help you figure it out, please do post a copy of the file here, and let us know what you're trying to do with it.

ttfn,
Sherry

Thanks for trying, but my prob not solved.
It seems that all the pages of a score should format the same as the 1st page.
I'm just trying to save a tree.

[dj]

Hi,

The idea behind the page layout mechanism was to have Composer lay things out the way it thinks they best fit the page, then allow the user to move things as they wish to satisfy their need.

One good starting point is to re-set your format to the default (Layout/Page Layout/Def). This should set your pages to roughly the same, give or take a couple of bars.

You can move staves and bars from one page to another with the tools in the Page Layout toolbar. You can also manually set the number of bars displayed, not just per page, but per staff, using "Specify number of bars per line tool (bpl)". And, finally, you can move staves up or down on the page (and whole pages of staves) using "Move barlines and staves in select mode (enter)" and dragging the boxes that appear. That screen also lets you (in a limited way) drag individual barlines across the staff, to space measures out.

It's not a fully automatic procedure, but then musical notation is so different from bar to bar that it's hard for a program to outguess the composer.

Good luck.

David