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I may have posted about a similar issue a few years ago. I like to print my music with standard notation measures and guitar tab notation (six lines with numerical tabs) below the standard notation.

BAIB does this fine, but has preset spacing between the standard and tab notation lines that is too wide. The result is that a good 50% of the paper is taken up with blank space between the notation and tabs, resulting in a song using 3 or 4 sheets of paper instead of 2.

I have looked at every setting and have not seen a way of modifying this spacing. Can someone let me know if Ive just missed it, and, if not, I'd sure like to see this added to the notation settings.

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Hello. You could try changing the "Staves per page" setting under Lead Sheet | Print. You can adjust that number, then use the "OK - Preview/Graphics" to preview the sheet. If that does not give you what you are looking for, please let us know.

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Thanks for the suggestion. I tried 10 staves per page and it did help, but only got me an additional set of notes and tabs. That does help, it cuts it down a page on some songs but not others. There is still as much space between the notes and tabs as the width of the 6 tab lines. It just seems to me that it would take a PG Music programmer 15 minutes to go in and give an option to reduce the blank space between notes and tabs, just wish they would do it. I will submit the idea to wherever they collect ideas.

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Put this request in the Wishlist forum.


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I did. But I also found a workaround. I enlarged font size to 40 and printed my music to pdf's. Takes a lot of pages but I then import them into the mobilesheets app and put it on landscape mode. This shows a half page at a time with very readable notes. I then use a page turner pedal to flip to the next half page or next page.

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