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Working with text
Text functions
To select a font for staff names, proceed as follows:
1. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Project page and select the Font 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 “Show Staff Names to Left of Staff” option in the Score Settings
dialog on the Project–Notation Style subpage (Staff Names category), the staff
names are 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 772.
• You can fine-tune the vertical and horizontal position of staff names with some of
the options on the Project–Spacings subpage of the Score Settings dialog.
Bar Numbers
Bar Number settings can be made in several places as well.
General settings
1. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Project page and select the Notation Style
subpage.
2. Scroll down the list to the “Bar Numbers” category.
3. Use the “Show every” setting to specify how often bar numbers are 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 State 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 shows 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.
Font settings
As with many of the other fixed text elements, you can select a font, size, and style for
bar numbers in the Score Settings dialog, on the Project–Font Settings subpage.
Spacing
On the Project–Spacings subpage of the Score Settings dialog, you can find four
settings that relate to bar numbers:
Option Description
First Bar Number –
Horizontal Offset
Sets the horizontal distance between the bar number 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.