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Setting individual staff sizes

It would save me a lot of paper if an accompanying part could be printed at a smaller pitch than the 'main' part. Page Setup|Options|Staff Size is OK as a universal setting. But is there any way to override it for individual staffs (which would still have to remain lined up, of course!)?

Re: Setting individual staff sizes

Reply #1 –
I fear this is currently not possible, at least directly with NWC alone.

You could try to export the pages to an image- (vectoriel) or word- processor software and reduce (in height) the staves you want to, but it would be a lot of work.

However, you may play with the heights of the staves (for instance, reduce them to 8, which is the minimum currently) : in the "Visual" tab of the Staff Property (F2 or Alt,s,p, or click menus Staff|Staff Properties...), set Vertical Size "Upper" and "Lower" to 8.

HTH!

Re: Setting individual staff sizes

Reply #2 –
Thanks - I submitted my request after I'd tried various workarounds like this, without much success.
I guess I'll add this to the wishlist.

Re: Setting individual staff sizes

Reply #3 –
I have recently been doing a lot of part extraction from a NWC score. It occurred to me that it would also be useful to have a "top staff only" staff size as well as a "default" staff size.

I often found it necessary to tweak the staff size to avoid a final page that is mainly blank space. However, as NWC only has a global staff size, it doesn't remember, for example, that the clarinet part, needed to by 14 point after I have set the staff size to 16 to make the tuba part extend to the bottom of the page. Finding the optimum size for each part takes quite a bit of experimentation. When I come back to the piece again, I can imagine that I am going to have to do all that experimentation from scratch.

See you at the wish list.

Stephen

Re: Setting individual staff sizes

Reply #4 –
Well, Stephen, I think you could use the "info" windows to store that kind of information.
On my side, I use it to remind the "printing conditions": margins size, paper size/orientation...
And with in-progress files, I use this as a reminder of what is done and what is not:
go and see "Absalon fili mi" absalonf.nwc in http://madmarsu.multimania.com/Nwc/ directory, then click on the "info" icon (I cannot copy/paste it here, since the font is not fixed, and spaces/tabs are condensed into a single space).
(x means terminated)
Very useful indeed!