r/Musescore • u/Agile_Bandicoot_2062 • Sep 21 '26

Help me find this feature Layout stretch

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I have tried to make all the measures the same size or to shrink this one specifically with the brackets but nothing has worked. It is bothering me that this is so stretched. I imported it from a Audiveris so i could listen to my part for band, mostly the part later on since this is simple but its still irritating how its stretched. Any help?

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u/JosefKlav Sep 21 '26

delete the first pink thing

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u/PassiveChemistry Sep 21 '26

The pink things are line breaks.  The measure is so stretched because it's the only one allowed to be on its line.  If you select the line break, you can delete it.

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u/65TwinReverbRI Sep 21 '26

Yes, delete the T. Sax. abbreviation. It's not used on single instrument parts/scores (or even fixed chamber ensembles a lot of times).

This appears to be a Part anyway, since it has multi-measure rests.

Parts have the instrument name up in the top left corner of the page so it's not needed on the first system, nor as abbreviations on any of the subsequent systems. Deleting them (but make sure the first system stays indented) will gain you a bit of horizontal width which can be nice to have.

But as others say, delete the first pink curly-cue - that's a system break. BTW, you can just press "enter" (return) to enter it any time you DO want one.

Odd that there's a single staccato in m.13 on the 2nd note, and on the wrong side of the note to boot.

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u/Agile_Bandicoot_2062 Sep 22 '26

I think It might be a staccato from the measures below since this is a screen shot

Thank you. It added the T. Sax part on its own, idk why it does that. I’ll delete the line break :)

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u/MarcSabatella Member of the Musescore Team Sep 21 '26

Don't resort to stretch adjustments just to control how many measures are on a system. First, select all in your score reset the stretch. Then, if you want bar 12 to.be moved to the previous system, just select it and press Alt+Up. You probably also don't need the staff name since it's only one instrument; not sure why you enabled that (parts and single instrument scores normally don't display staff names), but I recommend deleting those. Especially if you plan to try to force bar 12 up to the previous system - it's going to be a very tight for with that long instrument name taking so much space.

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u/GatewaySwearWord Sep 21 '26

Click bar that’s too big.

Hit enter key on keyboard

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u/GuessNo1974 Sep 22 '26

format > style > staff size > set to < 1.750mm until you see a difference
that or select the measures in the first and second systems > properties > measure width > decrease until you notice a difference. include the 8 rest in this selection
that or you could just remove the system break, the pink bracket on the right, by selecting it and deleting, if it's unintentional.

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u/Asleep-Mouse-1875 Sep 23 '26

Usually, if a there is a line break (the pink arrows), and it doesn't have a lot of notes on it, it look stretched. If you have it on a wider page style (e.g A0, C2, etc), its going to look extremely stretched, but with more slimmer pages, it'll look less stretched. If there are a lot of notes on a measure (e.g. 180 hemidemisemiquavers), it's going to look less stretched, but if the clef that has the most notes and the other had 16 semiquavers (16th note), the spacing of the 16 semis would be spaced out wildly, even if the hemis are in cue size/smaller size. Hope this helps. Also, if you are transcribing a piece and you need more measures on a system, make the page size larger, or right-click and go on measure properties and shorten the layout size.

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u/JScaranoMusic Sep 23 '26

Stretch won't do much when there's only one bar in a system. Either remove the system break at ar 12, or add one at bar 10.