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Systems

A system is one line of music across the page, including all the staves that constitute the staff system. This entry contains instructions for spacing, indenting, moving, or resizing systems. See Page layout for information on setting initial system position and size settings. See  System (line) break,  Measure layout, or Page turns for further instructions on laying out the measures that constitute systems. 

For instructions on compacting staff systems by omitting empty staves (when printing orchestral scores, for example), and varying the number of staves in each system by removing blank staves, see Optimizing systems.

To omit empty staves from a system (Optimizing)

See Optimizing systems.

To create variable-distance systems

See To create variable-distance systems.

 

To indent or move a system

To force a system onto the next page

To reduce or enlarge a system

 

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