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Working with text
Staff names
You can make settings for staff names in several places:
• On the Score Settings–Layout page, you specify wheth-
er the staff names should be shown at all, and whether to
use the names of the actual edited tracks in the score.
In a multi-track layout, you can choose for which tracks the staff names
should be shown, by clicking in the “N” column for each track.
• You specify a long and short staff name on the Score
Settings–Staff page (Main tab).
These will be used if you don’t use the “From Tracks” option on the Score
Settings–Layout page. The long name will be displayed for the first system
only, and the short name for the following systems. If you want a name at
the top of the page only, leave the “Short” name field empty.
You can select a font for staff names on the Text Settings
subpage of the Score Settings–Project page. Proceed as
follows:
1. Open the Score Settings–Project page and select the
Text Settings subpage.
2. Select the Project Text tab.
3. Use the “Font for” pop-up menu to select “Staff
Names”.
4. Select font, size and styles for the staff names (or use
a text attribute set).
5. Click Apply and close the Score Settings dialog.
Additional staff name settings
• If you activate the option “Show Track Names to Left of staff”
on the Notation Style subpage (Staff Names category) of the
Score Settings–Project page, the staff names will be shown
to the left of the staves, instead of above them.
• You can define separate subnames for the upper and the
lower staff in a polyphonic or split system, see “Staff names”
on page 528.
• You can fine-tune the vertical and horizontal position of staff
names with some of the options on the Spacing subpage of
the Score Settings–Project page.
Bar Numbers
Bar Number settings can be made in several places as
well:
General settings
1. Open the Notation Style subpage of the Score Set-
tings–Project page.
2. Scroll down the list to the “Bar Numbers” category.
3. Use the “Show every” setting to specify how often bar
numbers should be shown.
The options are “First Bar” (bar numbers shown for the first bar on each
staff), “Off” (no bar numbers shown) and any number. Click in the Status
column and use the mouse wheel to select the desired option.
4. If you like, activate the “Show Range with Multi-Rests”
option.
When this is activated, and you have a multi-rest, the bar number at the
beginning of the multi-rest will show a range, indicating the length of the
multi-rest.
5. If you want the bar numbers to be displayed below the
bar lines, activate the “Below Bar Lines” option.
6. Click Apply and close the Score Settings dialog.
Text settings
As with many of the other fixed text elements, you can se-
lect a font, size and style for bar numbers on the Text Set-
tings subpage of the Score Settings–Project page.
Spacing
On the Spacings subpage of the Score Settings–Project
page you will find four settings that relate to bar numbers:
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If the option “Show Long Track Names on new
Pages” is activated on the Notation Style subpage
(Staff Names category) of the Score Settings–Project
page, the long name will be displayed for the first sys-
tem on every page.
Option Description
First Bar Number –
Horizontal Offset
Sets the horizontal distance between the bar num-
ber and the bar line for the first bar on each staff.
First Bar Number –
Vertical Offset
Sets the vertical distance between the bar number
and the bar line for the first bar on each staff.
Other Bar Numbers –
Horizontal Offset
Sets the horizontal distance between the bar num-
ber and the bar line for all other bars.
Other Bar Numbers –
Vertical Offset
Sets the vertical distance between the bar number
and the bar line for all other bars.