Why do I get a full sized P/U bar after making a few engraving tweaks? It’s a .mxl import. It starts ok but when I move the systems around it reverts to a full size bar? I can manually move the rpt bar in engrave to put it back to a minim P/U but I would like to know what is happening to avoid this behaviour?
This is the opened .xml file no tweaks
This is after I move letter A to the next system (to get a better overall layout)
The size that anything takes up on the page is dependent on the system fullness, there’s not a single size of a bar. In the second picture you’ve removed a bunch of ‘time’ from the first system, so everything else (including the pickup) will take up more space in order to justify the system. Presumably, the full-length bars under the 1st and 2nd ending have increased in size as well, off-screen. With the absence of further context, this looks like expected behaviour.
I can manually move the repeat bar to the left to reduce the size of the pick up bar which takes a few seconds so its not a big deal. I was just wondering if it was something I missed but if its expected behaviour then I don’t need to look for answers.
Cheers
I did find a setting in Engraving Options which may help you to get what you want:
(under Multi-bar rests > Spacing) giving the following result: without manual adjustment:
Although for this to take effect, make sure to first delete your manual respacings of course.
How many beats do you expect to be in the pickup measure?
Its a Minim (2beats) pick up
Even with the suggested Multi-bar rest setting it still gives me a full bar pick up instead of the 2 beat pick up. It will probably only occur once in a blue moon so probably easier to manually move the bar (Rpt) back
I get the feeling we’re misunderstanding each other. In what sense is it a ‘full bar pickup’? As far as I can see it still contains a half-bar rest and it is in fact shorter than the full bar rests on the same system, so there is no ambiguity as to its meaning.
If one imports from Finale, that is to be expected. Finale’s native pickup routine simply hid the extra beats in a full measure for their version of pickups, which caused havoc in a DC al fine situation (which is why a 2/4 measure spoofed as 4/4 was the frequent solution in Finale).
