Moving Barlines Within a System |
In general, Composer does a good job of horizontally spacing measures, and systems with measures, to evenly distribute space according to standard music engraving practices. There may be reasons, however, that you will want to override Composer's default horizontal spacing. You can move a barline within a system to add more horizontal spacing to the measure on one side, and less horizontal spacing on the other side. For example, if one measure is too horizontally crowded, compared to other measures on the same system, you can move its left barline to the left, or its right barline to the right. This may, in turn, crowd the adjacent measure. So you may need to move the opposite barline of the adjacent measure to evenly space the system. To move a barline: This procedure is quite analogous to the procedure for Moving a Measure to the Previous System. See that topic for more details. -- OR -- Type SHIFT+P. If this takes you to the Page Text Palette instead, type SHIFT+P a second time to go to the Page Layout Palette. Composer will display the score in Page Layout View.
-- OR -- If you are not already in Select Mode, click the button in the main toolbar. -- OR -- hit the ENTER key. -- OR -- Right-click the mouse anywhere on the page.
The color of the handle and the barline will be highlighted as blue, to show that you have selected the barline.
The barline's handle will be filled solid red to indicate that the barline has been moved from its default position:
To restore a barline to its default horizontal position:
The barline and the handle will be highlighted in blue to indicate the selection:
-- OR -- Click the Default button. This restores the barline to its default position. |