Changing the padding in music frames individually

You can change the padding at the top/bottom of individual music frames, independently of your setting for music frame margins for the layout.

Prerequisite

  • Frames is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

  • If you want to change the padding in music frames on a master page, you have opened the master page in the master page editor.

Procedure

  1. Select the music frames whose padding you want to change.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate the following properties, individually or together, in the Music group:
    • Top padding

    • Bottom padding

  3. Change the padding by changing the values in the value fields.

    For example, entering 0 for Top padding aligns the top staff line of the top staff in the frame with the top of the music frame.

Result

The padding at the top/bottom of the selected music frames is changed. If you changed the padding in frames on pages in a layout, this only affects that layout and creates a master page override, which is a type of page format change. If you changed the padding in frames on a master page, this affects all pages in all layouts that use that master page.

Deactivating the properties returns the selected music frames to your settings for music frame margins for the layout.