Measures are being over stretched

[sjones]

For some reason when I view individual parts, the first couple measures are being stretched a ridiculous length. I have tried resetting the groupings or shifting measures over but nothing has worked. Everything looks fine in panorama but individual parts are a mess. I have attached a screen shot of my issue.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MP0z4V ... drive_link

[MikeLyons]

I canaccess your file, but an image is probably useless for diagnostic purposes. Zip the file and post that here as an attachment.

In the meantime, turn off autobreaks in the parts. Show layout marks in the view tab and see what's going on there.

[sjones]

Here is the zipped file. Thank you for your response!

[MikeLyons]

OK. Your score is the perfect example of why you should never, ever, ever drag barlines. Especially when you can't see the results because you're in Panorama mode. Your first bar has a GapAfterBar value of -300,000 or so. The only way this can happen is through dragging, or a glitch in an xml file.

I have attached the corrected file below.

Elements Pt 3 (Water) - 8-11.zip

(96.83 KiB) Downloaded 88 times

If this happens again, use the plugin gapbeforebar, which will allow you to reset the position of all barlines in the score. You can't reset the position by hand.

[sjones]

WOW. Thank you for the insight, I had no idea that it could cause that. Could you talk me through how look at the GapAfterBar value in case I run into it again?

[MikeLyons]

It'll be the exact same problem - bars going off the page that you just can't get back. The best thing is just don't ever for any reason drag barlines. NEVER. NOT EVER!

[sjones]

Since you helped me solve the last issue, maybe you can help with another that just came up. I am trying to export the music with score and individual parts all in one file. Currently, it is only adding the full score and two percussion parts that I added. I need to export all the parts and score. I have attached a copy of the file for reference.