G'Day
I was writing out some instrument parts last night and came across the following glitch. I was using the Boxmarks font for multiple rests and rehearsal letters. When I went to print preview, the automatic stave wrap failed - ie - the printing appeared to continue beyond the margin of the page. Also, when I used the right-arrow curcor key to scroll through the stave, I would reach a point where the scrolling would stop and then eventually jump to another point further along the stave. This only happened with one of the staves. I tried copying the whole stave to a completely new file, but the problem was still there. The file is not long (only 3 A4 pages of music) and I have had no problems with any of the other instrument parts. I finally solved the problem by removing the rehearsal letters. Does anyone have any bright ideas what went wrong?
Ian
This can happen if you have a gosh-awful-long measure that's too long to fit on the page (or screen). Usually this only occurs in "free-form" music (no time signature, and not enough bar lines) or in, say, something in 12/4 that's all in 1/64's and you're trying to print it with a 20-point staff size. Solution: add a bar line where you want this big measure to be split. Alternately, (for the screen) zoom out (the "-" magnifying glass) or (for the printer/preview) select a smaller staff font-size in Page Setup.
Thanks for the ideas - but I don't think that is the exact problem - the offending sequence had a double bar line, a single bar with a boxmark mulitple rest, a single barline, a boxmark rehearsal letter and another single bar and boxmark multiple rest character followed by a double bar line. It was just like any other sequence in the same piece, as far as I could see, but I will check the file carefully tonight to see if there is something amiss.
Thanks again
Ian
Do these "rehearsal letters" involve long text strings? If so, your problem may be because text strings that cross a bar line do not wrap when the staff wraps (ie. the string does not get split). The solution is to divide up the text string so it does not cross a bar line where the line wraps. I don't understand the cursor problem. If it still happens, perhaps you could post a copy of the song.
The symbols for multi measure rest do not occupy any time space in the measure - it's really an empty bar containing text - this could be the problem.
Add a whole note rest in the 'multi-rest' bars and fit the symbol around it.
If you add a rehearsal mark before the bar with 'preserve width' off you can lose the rehearsal mark off to the right of the end of the system.
Sorry but this is a problem that Boxmarks can't solve!