The number of bars on one or all staves may be set easily in Encore, the notation program I have used for over 20 years. The width of each bar on a stave is uniform, but you can manually drag a bar to be wider or narrower. I like it that way, but many seem to prefer the proportional spacing as used by Sibelius.

I don't recall how MuseScore handles this issue (not at a computer now), but if you did not know, the free MuseScore reads BIAB files directly, including chords. Very handy.


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