I’m noticing a quirk with unscaled graphic slices. Here is the source slice:
Here is slice in its destination. If the Graphics box is enlarged beyond the boundaries of the slice as shown, the staff lines don’t terminate in white space in accordance with the end of the slice but just continue on:
This requires that the box be very precisely drawn to avoid a ragged edge.
It would be nice if the Properties panel>Graphics>Fit mode: defaulted to “Unscaled” after one has inserted the first unscaled frame in a file, since it would seem likely that any following frames would also be “unscaled”.
It would also be helpful if the graphics file type “stuck” at whatever one first uses instead of constantly defaulting back to PDF for each following graphic slice.
In the documentation regarding graphic slices, I was confused by:
"Moving graphic slices You can move individual graphic slices around pages after they have been created…etc.
Why one would want to do that, I thought? And try as I might, the only thing that I could get to move around the page was the graphic slice frame, not the slice itself. So I am assuming that that is what is meant. But it was confusing for a literal-minded person like myself. But perhaps a graphic slice can actually be someone pulled out of its place on the page and moved somewhere else on the page without exporting it to that page?
When I’m using graphic slices, to be safe, I always set the boundaries of the selection inside the slice so that I have some white space all around. This usually requires including an invisible bar line so the music in the slice looks like it continues.
(That’s a dashed bar line, with the dash length set to 0 in Engraving Options)
Thanks @dan_kreider, but I’m afraid that didn’t understand that.
Here is part of a page of some graphic slices:
How would I set the boundaries to include white space on the right side of the slice? And why would an invisible bar line be necessary?
What I would do there is use a single staff, set up codas to make a gap, and add an invisible bar line at the end of each one. Then there’s automatic white space around each of the slices.
@dan_kreider Excellent solution! That is particularly effective if one actually wants a bar line at the end of the slice, as in my initial example. If one doesn’t, then it might be easier without the codas, as I have been doing it, although it certainly saves space to be able to put them all on just a few lines instead of each on a line. And an invisible bar line is not necessary even with the codas if one is using partial measures as in the third example.
In any case, I don’t understand why the slice is not terminating as one would expect; that is, with empty space without using your solution.
Later, after working with this for awhile…
Using codas seems best in all situations. Thanks again for this elegant solution @dan_kreider.
