The Sibelius Forum

Thanks, Steve, for your help. It did take some experimentation. Just how this will effect the margins, which are also set by the style sheet of the publisher, remains to be seen. It also complicated by the fact that they print on 9 x 12 paper, but my printer won't accommodate that size paper. I do a...

I am trying to get Sibelius scores ready for a publisher. If I measure the width of a stave in Sibelius as it is currently configured it is 21 centimeters. Measuring a copy of one of the printed works of this publisher a stave measures 20 centimeters. How can I alter my Sibelius files so that they m...

Thanks, Bob for your suggestions. The first solution solves the problem, but it will never satisfy the publisher for whom I preparing this. I have fiddled with it, trying this, that, and all the others I can think, but without success. I assume (although my assumptions are often wide of the mark) th...

Further experimentation has led to the conclusion that adding the dot to the half note is the culprit. If I remove the dot the note moves to the right place with both soprano and alto notes showing. There must a work-around.

Voice 1: dotted half note on F. Voice 2: eighth note on F. Rather than the eighth note being positioned next to the dotted half so that both notes are showing, Sibelius is positioning the eighth on top of the dotted half note so that it appears to be a single eighth note rather than a dotted have no...