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Working with text
4. Adjust the positioning settings for the text:
5. Select a text attribute set for the text, or make manual
settings for font, size, and style.
6. Click OK.
The text is inserted. You can adjust the positioning manually by dragging
the text block.
Inserting variables
When you enter the text, you can also insert special char-
acters or “place holders” for different attributes. When the
text is displayed, these characters are replaced by their
actual values (e.g. page numbers). The following variables
are available:
For example, if you enter the text “%l, %r, Page %p”, these
variables might be shown as “1st Violin, Quartet No.2,
Page 12” in the score.
Using the Score Settings (Text page)
In the Score Settings dialog on the Text page, you can find
a number of text-related settings. The symbol buttons cor-
respond to the symbols found on the Other, Layout, and
Project tabs of the Symbols Inspector, see
“Symbol details”
on page 634.
• On the Layer pop-up menu, select the layer that you
want to use.
The text symbols available for this layer is displayed to the left of the pop-
up menu.
• You can use the text symbols in the same way as you
would use symbols from the Inspector or a symbol palette.
When you select a text symbol and move the mouse pointer over the
score, the pointer changes to a pencil, and you can enter text at the po
-
sition you click on.
The Notepad tab and the Selection tab
Below the text symbols and the Layer pop-up menu, you
can find two tabs with large text entry fields.
• Use the Notepad tab to enter longer text passages.
When you are happy with the text in terms of wording and
length, select all or part of the text, and select a note in the
score. Now, the Insert Lyrics button below the Notepad
tab becomes available.
When you click Insert Lyrics, the selected text is entered into the score,
starting from the note you selected.
• When you select text in the score and open the Selec-
tion tab, the selected words are shown in the text field.
You can now change the wording of the text, and use the
text format options to the left to change the appearance of
the selected text. When you are done, click Apply to apply
your changes to the selected text in the score.
Option Description
Show on all
pages
When this is activated, the text is shown on all pages. The
“Except First” checkbox allows you to exclude the very
first page.
Show on first
page
When this is selected, the text is only shown on the first
page.
Line This determines how the text is aligned. For example, if
you place several texts on “Top/Left”, you can sort them
by entering the desired number of lines.
Toggle
Position
When the Left or Right position option is selected to the
right, activating this checkbox makes the text alternate
between left and right alignment on even/odd pages.
Position
buttons
Determines where on the page you want the text, verti-
cally (Top/Bottom) and horizontally (Left, Center, Right).
Text to enter Text that is displayed
%p The current page number.
%l (lower case L) The long staff name.
%s The short staff name.
%r The name of the project.