Wrap text automatically? (ANSWERED)

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Post by appreciatethehelp » Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:43 pm

Does Sibelius have the equivalent of a "wrap text automatically" function?

Those who are familiar with Microsoft Word/ Libreoffice etc. Will know what I mean.

When typing in a score and the words reach the page margin, I want the cursor to automatically start/move to a new line beneath the current line, instead of my having to enter a line break manually (otherwise the words will run into the page margin and then off the page as I continue to type).

NOTE: The text style I am using is "Comments" text. If for some reason "Comments" text can't be set to wrap automatically, I'd be happy to use another text style….

Basically I am making some documents for my students that contain text interspersed with example notation. However, having to enter a line break in the text manually makes the task far more time-consuming.
Also if I want to change a line of text by adding/subtracting something or changing the size of the words then the whole paragraph needs to have line breaks entered in manually again!

Cheers.
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bobp
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Post by bobp » Wed Jul 19, 2017 1:08 am

What kind of text are you talking about?
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Post by appreciatethehelp » Wed Jul 19, 2017 7:43 am

I am talking about "Comments" text. If for some reason "Comments" text can't be set to wrap automatically, I'd be happy to use another text style….

Basically I am making some documents for my students that contain text interspersed with example notation. However, having to enter a line break in the text manually makes the task far more time-consuming.
Also if I want to change a line of text by adding/subtracting something or changing the size of the words then the whole paragraph needs to have line breaks entered in manually again!

Cheers.

bobp
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Post by bobp » Wed Jul 19, 2017 2:40 pm

I think I would do what you're doing in a Word document instead. Export your music examples as some kind of graphic (PDF maybe) individually or all at once. You can crop as needed and insert into the Word document.
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Post by andyg » Wed Jul 19, 2017 9:33 pm

I concur. I had to do loads of this for a dissertation for my last teaching diploma. A couple of the simple ones were done in Sibelius, but the vast majority were done in Word, with the musical parts imported as graphics. I forget the resolution I used but it was quite high, I think.

Bottom line is that Sibelius is hopeless as a word processor, but there again Word is no great shakes at making musical scores! Horses for courses, as they say
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Post by appreciatethehelp » Thu Jul 20, 2017 12:46 pm

Thanks guys, good advice; this is much easier than trying to do everything on Sibelius.

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