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Zuill
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| Posted 12/9/2016 11:58 PM (GMT -6) |   | If you want to stifle the cautionary signatures at the end of a line, do that in the measure tool window for the last measure of the system. It is standard practice to have the warning, but to each his own.
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Vaughan
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| Posted 12/10/2016 8:00 AM (GMT -6) | | It's hard to be sure, but it looks as though the percussion line in bar 40 has a number of double noteheads, the sort of thing I've occasionally seen when importing MIDI files. If that's the case, deleting these could win you some horizontal space. I would certainly remove the key change naturals, as Zuill mentioned. And I know I'm overstepping my bounds but I kind of wonder what the need is for a shift to 4# for only 4 bars. In any case, I'll occasionally reduce the page size to alleviate problems like these. Reputable editions occasionally do this, even for a single pages.
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Christopher Smith
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| Posted 12/10/2016 11:21 AM (GMT -6) | | In addition to the other excellent comments, did you know you can suppress cautionary naturals in key signature changes? I usually do that. It's in Document Options>Key Signatures>Cancel Outgoing Key Signatures. That can buy you some space. [oops, I just noticed Zuill said the same thing!]
If you wanted to, you could suppress the cautionary key signatures at the ends of the systems, but I don't advise it, as those are generally considered to be essential to proper notation and might cause reading errors. That is in the same place as the previous option, but it's called Display Courtesy Key Signatures at the end of Staff Systems. You can also suppress them one measure at a time with Measure Attributes (measure tool, double click the measure.)
When I run into collisions like you have, I generally use one of two solutions. Put fewer measures per system, or reduce the size of the system by a few percent. Too much reduction can look stupid, especially if it's just for a system or two, so fewer measures might be the better option.
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