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malcolmbebb

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Line length
« on: December 23, 2016, 11:22:20 PM »

I am using AbcExplorer.
Most of my abcs have four bars to a line. However, a couple of tunes have two bar phrases on their own lines, for instance a short intro.
Abc Explorer expands these two bar lines to fill the same space a four bars, so the bars get very stretched out.
I would like to keep the bar length about the same, so the line takes up half the width instead of the full width. Have tried a few things but with no success.
Is there a way of doing this?
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Re: Line length
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2016, 11:28:32 PM »

Try:
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%%stretchstaff no
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Re: Line length
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2016, 10:38:41 AM »

 Thanks Anahata
Worked a treat.
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