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Working with text
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
• Which different types of text are available.
• How to enter and edit text.
• How to set font, size, and style.
• How to enter lyrics.
Adding and editing text symbols
This section describes the general procedure for adding and editing text symbols. 
There are several different types of text symbols, but the basic procedures are the 
same (except for block text symbols and page text symbols).
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5. Click the text symbol and click in the score at the position where you want the 
text to appear.
If you are adding lyrics, you should click above or below a note (lyrics are centered 
around each note and positioned vertically to where you clicked).
6. Enter the text in the text box that appears.
You can use [Backspace] to delete letters, and move the cursor with the arrow keys.
7. When you are done, press [Return].
The text appears. You can move,...

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In the Score Settings dialog (Text tab), you can find two settings that determine the 
appearance of the melisma lines for text symbols:
• The Melisma Style pop-up menu is where you specify whether the line is solid 
or dotted.
• The Melisma End pop-up menu allows you to choose whether the end of the 
line is plain, has an arrow, or forms a “bracket” up or down.
Making space
Dragging staves is a way to edit distances within staves or between grand...

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3. Select a font from the Font pop-up menu.
How many and which fonts appear depends on what typefaces you have installed on 
your computer.
IMPORTANT
For regular text you should avoid the “Steinberg” fonts. These are the fonts Cubase 
uses for all scoring symbols, etc.
4. Select a text size from the Size pop-up menu (or enter one manually in the text 
field).
5. You can also add one or several font options using the checkboxes and 
pop-up menus.
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Text attribute sets
A text attribute set can be seen as a “preset” containing all font, size, and style 
settings. By creating text attribute sets for the settings you use most often, you can 
save a lot of time.
Creating a text attribute set
PROCEDURE
1. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Project page and select the Font 
Settings subpage.
2. Open the Attribute Sets tab.
3. On the Font Set pop-up menu, select the “Empty” set.
4. Select a font,...

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Editing text attribute sets
If you edit the settings in a text attribute set, all texts using this particular set are 
affected. This is very practical, since it allows you to use the same number of 
“generic” sets for all your projects (for titles, comments, lyrics, etc.), and simply 
change the fonts, sizes, etc. for a different project if necessary. This also makes it 
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Similarly, you can copy selected text by using the “Text To Clipboard” option from 
the context menu.
Lyrics
This type of text is inserted by selecting Lyrics on the Other symbol tab. You can 
insert this type of text only on note layers.
When you insert lyrics, you should click below or above the note the syllable 
belongs to. The text then appears horizontally centered around the note and 
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– if this is not what you want, activate the “Don’t Center Hyphens” option in the Score 
Settings dialog, on the Project–Notation Style subpage (Lyrics category).
Lyrics and measure widths
When you first enter lyrics, the result may look crammed, since the words take up 
more space than the notes (the lyrics are also selected just after entering the last 
word, which makes them look a bit odd when overlapping). To remedy this, use the 
auto layout function...

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Entering notes into voices on page 1168
Moving lyrics
If you want to move the lyrics up or down, for example to make room for a second 
verse, proceed as follows:
PROCEDURE
1. Hold down [Shift] and double-click on the first word in the lyrics.
All lyric “blocks” are selected.
2. Drag one of the lyric blocks up or down.
All selected lyric blocks are moved accordingly.
Adding lyrics from the clipboard
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4. Click Open.
The text in the file is inserted into the score.
Options for inserted Block Text
Right-clicking on inserted Block Text brings up a pop-up menu with the following 
options:
Settings
Brings up the RTF Settings dialog. You can also open this by double-clicking 
the Block Text.
Import Text
Imports text from a text file or RTF file. The imported text replaces any text 
currently inserted at the position of the Block Text.
Update Text
Reloads the...