On Nov 25, 2008, at 6:44 PM, noel jones wrote:
I think I have layout and everything under control when doing hymns
except lyrics.
Multiple verses end up making me manually drag staves around, and I
end up with a sloppy looking book of hymns.
I know there must be an automatic command that will move things to
adjust to multiple lines of lyrics.
[well, I hope there is]
Running 2008b on a 17" macbook pro, given to me free by Apple when
my almost three year old out of warranty 12" Powerbook had to go
back for a third time to straighten out problems.
There are several ways to deal with this. Dragging the systems in
Page Layout is easy, but inaccurate.
What I do is this. I go to the Page Layout menu, select Systems>Edit
Margins (these items have moved around a little bit recently). The
window opens.
I drag the SECOND system down to make enough room for the first
system lyrics. The setting "distance between systems" refers to the
space ABOVE the system you are in, so System 2 shows all the current
settings it has in the window. I then set Change System 2 through
{leave this blank to change all from 2 to the end} and hit Apply. Now
all the systems have the same settings as System 2.
You could also select Space Systems Evenly, but I find this item
really dumb. If I drag the lower margin of the bottom system down a
bit, it prevents the lowest system from hugging the bottom of the
page too much, but JW Space Systems plugin was really the greatest
way to do this before.
Christopher
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