Is there a way to control the widths of individual measures? I want to place text in a measure other than the lyric and have it be large enough to read it but it often bleeds into the next measure. If I could force the measure to be wide enough for the text that would be great.
I usually do something like this:
It makes the measure wider while preserving the relative spacing of the notes.
It can be quite time consuming to get it to look right as much depends on accidentals and the contents of other staves, but I have no easier way that produces acceptable results.
Rick's method is necessary to get the notes spaced properly. If all you need is to keep the text from overlapping barlines or notes, just check the "preserve width" box on the "expression placement" tab of the Notation Properties dialog box for the text entry you're working with.
Bill
Depending on how many text entries you have, you could try right justifying some, and align them "to next bar/note." then place them after the note but before the bar line.