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Working with text
Offsetting bar numbers
If you double-click on a bar number, a dialog appears, al-
lowing you to skip a number of bars in the otherwise con-
tinuous bar numbering.
This is used for example when a section repeats. Say, you
have a repeat of bar 7 and 8, and want the first bar after
the repeat to have the number 11, not 9. To achieve this,
you double-click on the “9” and insert an offset of “2”.
It is also useful if the score starts with an upbeat, and you
want the first “real” bar to be numbered 1. In that case you
would specify an offset of “-1” for the second bar, and
make sure the bar number for the upbeat bar is hidden.
• Bar number offsets belong to the Project layer and are
shown for all tracks and layouts.
Settings for other fixed text elements
You can make text settings for virtually all text and num-
bers that appear in the score. Proceed as follows:
1. Open the Text Settings subpage of the Score Set-
tings–Project page.
2. Select the Project Text tab.
3. Use the “Font For” pop-up menu to select a text type
to make settings for.
4. Use the options in the dialog to change the settings.
5. Click Apply to apply the settings to all elements of the
selected type.
To close the dialog, click the close button at the top right of the dialog
window.
Bar Numbers before and after changing their text settings.
• You can also define text attribute sets on the Text Set-
tings subpage, as a means to quickly change text.
Note that you can select a defined attribute set from the context menu
opened when right-clicking on a text element (see “Text attribute sets”
on page 582).