Steinberg Cubase 8 Manual
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Working with text
Different types of text
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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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Working with text
Different types of text
1259
RELATED LINKS
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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Working with text Different types of text 1261 Word wrap When this is activated, line breaks are used to fit the text in the Block Text symbol. Replace mode In this mode, the Block Text box is opaque, covering what’s under it. Trans mode In this mode, the Block Text box is transparent. 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 move the bar or the entire staff, the text moves with it. To enter layout text, proceed as follows: PROCEDURE 1. In the Project window, select the tracks for which you want to enter text. 2. Open the Score Editor. 3. On the Other tab of the Symbols Inspector, activate the Lay Text symbol and click at the position in the score where you want to insert the text. 4. Enter the text that you want to display for the Layout. As with regular text, you can copy and paste text from external sources to this symbol. RELATED LINKS Regular text on page 1256 Page Text The page text symbols are found on the Other tab. If you insert page text on the project layer, it is part of the project layout and appears in all layouts. The position of page text is not tied to a note, bar or staff position. In other words, it does not matter if you move other objects on the page, the page text stays where you inserted it. Typically, it is used for score titles, page numbers, copyright information and other text elements that you want displayed with all parts (on all pages if you like).
Working with text Different types of text 1262 Entering page text PROCEDURE 1. Open the Other tab of the Symbols Inspector. 2. Click the Page Text symbol and click in the score. It does not matter where you click – the positioning is specified in the Page Text dialog. 3. Enter the text that you want displayed in the field at the top of the dialog. You can use special characters to add “variables” such as page numbers – see below. 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. Text adjustment options 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, vertically (Top/Bottom) and horizontally (Left, Center, Right). 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 available:
Working with text Different types of text 1263 %p The current page number. %l (lower case L) The long staff name. %s The short staff name. %r The name of the project. 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 correspond to the symbols found on the Other tab of the Symbols Inspector. • On the Layer pop-up menu, select the layer that you want to use. The text symbols available for this layer are 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 position you click on. RELATED LINKS Symbol details on page 1234 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.
Working with text Text functions 1264 • When you select text in the score and open the Selection 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. 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 PROCEDURE 1. Open the Words symbol tab. This tab is hidden by default. 2. Type in the desired word(s) in the text field at the top of the dialog. 3. Specify the text type (regular text or lyrics) with the Type pop-up menu. 4. Make settings for font, size, and style. You can also use a text attribute set if you like. 5. Click Exit to close the dialog. The words that you entered appear in the selected symbol field on the Words tab. Right-clicking one of the fields opens a context menu with a number of options: • Select “Edit” to open the Custom Text Editor dialog. • Select “New” to add a new empty symbol to the Words tab. • Select “Remove” to delete any unwanted symbols from the Words tab. • Select “Open As Palette” to open the Words symbol palette. RELATED LINKS Showing/Hiding Symbols Inspector tabs on page 1208
Working with text Text functions 1265 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 all, for all text symbol types, regardless of font, size, and style settings. PROCEDURE 1. Open the Scores menu and select “Find and Replace” from the Functions submenu. The Find and Replace dialog opens. 2. In the Find value field, enter the words to replace. 3. If you want all instances of the words to be replaced, regardless of upper/lower case, deactivate the “Case Sensitive” option. 4. If you do not want to replace the words if they are a part of another word, activate the “Entire Word” option. For example, if you want to replace the word “string” but not the word “stringendo”, you should activate “Entire Word”. 5. In the “Replace” field, enter the words that are to be used as replacement. 6. Click OK. Now all occurrences of the “Find” words are replaced with the “Replace” words. Staff names You can make settings for staff names in several places: • In the Score Settings dialog on the Layout page, you specify whether the staff names are shown at all and whether to use the names of the actual edited tracks in the score. In a multi-track layout, you can choose for which tracks the staff names are shown by clicking in the “N” column for each track.
Working with text Text functions 1266 • You specify a long and short staff name in the Score Settings dialog, on the Staff page (Main tab). These are used if you do not use the “From Tracks” option on the Layout page of the Score Settings dialog. The long name is displayed for the first system only, and the short name for the following systems. If you want a name at the top of the page only, leave the “Short” name field empty. IMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANT If the
Working with text Text functions 1267 General settings PROCEDURE 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: 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. Other Bar Numbers – Horizontal Offset Sets the horizontal distance between the bar number and the bar line for all other bars. Other Bar Numbers – Vertical Offset Sets the vertical distance between the bar number and the bar line for all other bars.
Working with text Text functions 1268 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”. 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 that 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 settings for virtually all text and numbers that appear in the score. PROCEDURE 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 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 font settings. You can also define text attribute sets on the Font Settings 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. RELATED LINKS Text attribute sets on page 1255
1269 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 the score differently when you print the entire score and when you extract parts for single instruments (or groups of instruments). Layouts allow you to keep different sets of “looks” for the same track or set of tracks. You might for example have one layout for each single instrument and one for the entire score. • By selecting another layout on the Layout page of the Score Settings dialog, you can switch to another combination of tracks without having to leave the Score Editor. What makes up a layout? A layout contains the following items and properties: • The inserted Layout symbols.
Working with layouts Creating a layout 1270 • All settings on the Layout page of the Score Settings dialog. • The vertical spacing of the staves. • Bar line spacing. •Broken bar lines. NOTE Note that Project symbols, bar line types and bar number offsets are part of the Project layer, and appear in all layouts. RELATED LINKS The available symbols on page 1210 How layouts are stored Layouts are created automatically when you edit a single track or a combination of t racks. The y ar e an in te gr al part of th e specific track combination, which means you do not have to save them separately. 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]. IMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANTIMPORTANT The order of the tracks does not matter