Fitting systems on pages.
A line of music across a page, whether it’s made up of one instrument or multiple, is called a system. Adjusting the size of your systems, and how many appear on a page, allows you to make the most of your available printing space.
By the end of this lesson you will know how to:
Note. To begin at this point, open "Tutorial 7a.MUS."
One way you can make your finished score more efficient is to remove staves that don’t have music in them. In the music you’ve created, the clarinet doesn’t play until measure 9, resulting in eight empty measures printed in the score.
To move a staff up or down in a system:
We just changed the spacing for individual systems. You can also adjust the staff spacing for all systems at once. For example, lets say you wanted to lower the Clarinet staff from the third system to the end of the piece.
To move a staff up or down for all systems:
SongWriter allows you to drag systems to adjust their spacing manually. You can move them while leaving the spacing of subsequent systems uniform, or move them independently. You can also use the Resize tool to adjust the overall size of the music in order to fit more systems on a page.
To reposition systems and finalize the layout:
Use the above techniques to manually position systems visually. To specify a number of systems per page automatically, choose Page Layout > Space Systems Evenly, and then enter the number of systems in the Distribute Systems section and click OK. For additional control over the precise spacing of system and page margins, see Page Layout.
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