Steinberg Cubase 7 User Manual

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Working with textDifferent types of text
Block Text
Block Text allows you to import text from a file on disk or from the clipboard. Proceed 
as follows:
1.Click the Block Text symbol on the Other tab to activate the Draw tool.
You can insert block text on the project layer (for text that should appear on all 
pages, for example, the score title), on the layout layer (to print a title only for a 
particular track layout, for example, for a particular instrument), or on the note layer 
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Lay Text
The Lay Text symbol allows you to insert layout text for multiple staves. This is available 
only on the layout layer.
To hide or show the inserted text for different staves in the layout, deactivate or 
activate the “L” column for the corresponding tracks on the Layout page of the Score 
Settings dialog. The text appears in all staves for which you have activated the “L” 
column. This means that the text is tied to the bar and staff position. If you...

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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 characters 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...

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Text functions
In addition to the text symbols that you can add to the different layers, you have other 
text functions at your disposal that support you while working on the score. These are 
described in the following sections.
The Words tab
If you have certain words that you use a lot, you can save these as dedicated symbols 
on the Words tab. This saves time, since you do not have to type the same word over 
and over again.
Storing a word
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Inserting a word
You insert words from the Words tab as you would insert any regular symbol, by 
selecting the appropriate word and clicking in the score. However, you can edit the 
word after inserting it, just as with text inserted by typing.
Find and replace
This function allows you to replace all occurrences of a certain word or group of 
words, with another word or group of words. The replacement is done once and for 
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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
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Offsetting bar numbers
If you double-click on a bar number, a dialog appears, allowing you to skip a number 
of bars in the otherwise continuous 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”.
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Working with layouts
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
- What layouts are and what they contain.
- How to create layouts.
- How to use layouts for opening combinations of tracks.
- How to apply, load, save and delete layouts.
- How to import and export layouts.
- An example of how layouts can be used.
Background: Layouts
Layouts can be viewed as “presets” containing settings for the layout layer: staff 
spacing, bar lines, layout symbols, etc.
When to use layouts
•You need to format...

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Working with layoutsCreating a layout
Creating a layout
Layouts are created automatically when you open a new combination of tracks for 
editing.
Each track may have been edited before, individually or together with other tracks, it 
does not matter. What matters is that you open precisely these tracks. For example, to 
create a layout for a string quartet, select parts on the corresponding tracks and press 
[Ctrl]/[Command]-[R].
Opening a layout
The “Open Layout” command on the Scores menu opens a...

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Working with layoutsUsing layouts – an example
Importing layout symbols
By selecting another layout and selecting “Get Form” from the Functions pop-up 
menu below the list, you import all Layout symbols (inserted from the Layout section in 
the Symbols Inspector) from the selected layout into the current layout.
Managing layouts
•To rename a layout, select it in the list and enter the desired name in the Name field 
to the right in the dialog.
Initially, a layout gets the name of one of the edited...