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Automatic spacing allowing page with only one measure
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Description
Issue type
Other type of issue
Bug description
Could be viewed as feature or bug, but surely there is some way to set automatic spacing so that if it is calculating a way to fit measures before a page break in such a way that it decides it's okay to have a page with only 1 extremely wide measure on it, that it instead decides to fit that measure into the previous page if possible.
Right now, I encounter this issue often in situations where there is ample room to condense the 1-bar-1-page measure into the previous page in an aesthetically successful manner.
I have faith in the great assembled minds to find a way to implement this!
Steps to reproduce
- Create score with a bunch of music.
- Add a page break somewhere convenient for a page turn (this issue often happens when transposing an entire part) and later after some editing elsewhere the music will re-scale in such a way that it creates a 1-bar-1-page measure.
- Be dissatisfied with the result.
Screenshots/Screen recordings
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MuseScore Version
4.0
Regression
No.
Operating system
Windows 10
Additional context
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Reproduce the issue in MuseScore 4.0 by adding a page break, editing music so a page contains one wide measure, and checking whether the measure can fit on the previous page without an aesthetically unsuccessful layout.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100