Steinberg Cubase SX/SL 3 Score Layout And Printing Manual

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Text functions
The Words palette
If you have certain words that you use a lot, you can “store” these on 
the Words palette. This will save time, since you don’t have to type the 
same word several times.
Storing a word
1.Open the Words symbol palette.
2.Double click on an “empty” symbol field in the palette.
The Custom Text Editor dialog appears.
3.Type in the desired word(s) in the text field at the top of the dialog.
4.Specify the text type (regular text or lyrics)...

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6.Click Exit to close the dialog.
The word(s) you entered appear in the selected symbol field on the palette.
7.You can add more symbol fields to the palette by right-clicking (Win) 
or [Ctrl]-clicking (Mac) one of the fields and selecting Add Text from 
the pop-up menu.
Inserting a word
You insert words from the palette as you would insert any regular sym-
bol, by selecting the appropriate word and clicking in the score. How-
ever, you can edit the word after...

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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 replace-
ment is done once and for all, for all text symbol types, regardless of 
font, size and style settings. Proceed as follows:
1.Pull down the Scores menu and select “Find and Replace” from the 
Text submenu.
A dialog appears.
2.Enter the word(s) to replace in the Find value field.
3.If you want all instances of the...

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Staff names
Settings for staff names are done in several places:
•In the Layout Settings dialog, you specify whether the staff names 
should be 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 which tracks should have staff names shown, by 
clicking in the “N” column for each track.
•You specify a long and short staff name in the Staff Settings dialog.
These will be used if you don’t use the...

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Bar numbers
Bar number settings can be made in several places as well:
General settings
1.Pull down the Scores menu and select Notation Style from the Global 
Settings submenu.
2.Select the “Beams and Bars” tab.
3.Use the “Show Bar Numbers every X bars” setting to specify “how 
often” bar numbers should be shown.
The options are “First” (bar numbers shown for the first bar on each staff), “Off” (no bar 
numbers shown) and any number.
4.If you like, activate the “Show...

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Spacing
In the Scores–Global Settings–Spacing dialog you will find four set-
tings that relate to bar numbers:
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 re-
peat of bar 7 and 8, the first bar after the repeat should have the num-
ber 11, not 9. To achieve this you double click on the “9”...

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Settings for other fixed text elements
You can make text settings for virtually all text and numbers that ap-
pear in the score. There are two ways to do this:
Making text settings in the Text Settings dialog
1.Select Text from the Scores–Global Settings submenu.
2.Select the Global 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 OK to close the dialog and apply the...

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11
Working with layouts 

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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.
• 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 will need to format the score differently when you print...