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by stevenedis
Tue Sep 25, 2018 10:12 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: inputting triplet help (nested, irregular?)
Replies: 4
Views: 3237

Re: inputting triplet help (nested, irregular?)

.. or use third keypad, 8 or 9, to adjust beaming properties of already-input notes
by stevenedis
Sat Sep 22, 2018 11:10 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: inputting triplet help (nested, irregular?)
Replies: 4
Views: 3237

Re: inputting triplet help (nested, irregular?)

Write the first sixteenth.

While it's still selected, hit Ctrl-3 (or Cmd-3)

This turns it into a triplet. Then just fill the other notes in.
by stevenedis
Thu Sep 20, 2018 9:27 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Ossia staff messes up my lyrics formatting
Replies: 16
Views: 8094

Re: Ossia staff messes up my lyrics formatting

Time for a new accompanist.
by stevenedis
Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:57 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Copy parts layouts between files?
Replies: 8
Views: 6586

Re: Copy parts layouts between files?

I'd definitely avoid any layout copying. The simplest way to proceed for you I think is this. Create both orchestrations on the same master Full Score. So you have the instruments that don't change, plus you have the instruments that do change in both the 'big band' and 'small band' versions. If you...
by stevenedis
Wed Feb 07, 2018 5:14 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Cross-staff notes
Replies: 7
Views: 5787

Re: Cross-staff notes

You can do the second example by entering all the notes onto the middle stave, then crossing them as desired to the stave above or the stave below as explained in the manual.
by stevenedis
Fri Jan 12, 2018 3:19 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Drum chart
Replies: 1
Views: 1915

Re: Drum chart

Put cymbals and Hi-hat in voice 1, bass drum in voice 2. Snare drum in whichever works best for you.
by stevenedis
Tue Nov 21, 2017 9:49 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Width of Staff
Replies: 5
Views: 4097

Re: Width of Staff

There was a similar post on the official Sibelius forum today. Just in case this is the same problem you are suffering from, here is the solution which was posted. >>>This message is typical of what has been reported before as damage done to a Sibelius installation by McAfee anti-virus on Windows 10...
by stevenedis
Mon Nov 20, 2017 11:44 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: No Underscores During Lyric Input
Replies: 5
Views: 8050

Re: No Underscores During Lyric Input

If you select the handles, you can also press delete and the lyric lines will disappear. You have to be careful to select the handle rather than the line itself, otherwise the lyric itself will disappear.
Steve
by stevenedis
Mon Nov 20, 2017 11:38 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Width of Staff
Replies: 5
Views: 4097

Re: Width of Staff

Increase the size of the staff margins in your "Document Setup" [or "Page Setup"]. You might need to experiment a bit to get the stave length to be as you want it.
Steve
by stevenedis
Sat Sep 30, 2017 11:47 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Focus on Staves
Replies: 2
Views: 2527

Re: Focus on Staves

Not sure what you mean by the glasses symbol - unless you mean the warning for difficult page turns. If so, this is a setting in AutoBreaks (specifically auto page breaks) and not to do with 'Focus on Staves'.
by stevenedis
Sun Sep 17, 2017 11:19 am
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: splitting joint score parts
Replies: 4
Views: 6057

Re: splitting joint score parts

I can think of a couple of solutions, neither completely satisfactory. 1. You can EXTRACT the combined flutes part, then do what you need to do to it (i.e making two separate parts for Fl.1 and Fl.2). Obviously you thereby break the link between score and parts. So if you update the music, you'll ne...
by stevenedis
Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:28 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Dotted/Dashed Lines (Slurs) Never Magnetic
Replies: 4
Views: 4400

Re: Dotted/Dashed Lines (Slurs) Never Magnetic

In Preferences>Mouse, for "When you create an object...", make sure "it appears near the current selection" is ticked (NOT "click the mouse to position it"). My suspicion is this setting has been inadvertently changed. I know your problem superficially is nothing to do with the mouse, but there you ...
by stevenedis
Sun Sep 03, 2017 7:41 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: Key signatures different in score and parts
Replies: 5
Views: 4939

Re: Key signatures different in score and parts

>>I'm beginning to think that, if a key sig is added to a part it isn't reflected in the score, but that it doesn't happen the other way around.

I believe this is indeed the case, and as far as I know has not always been the case. Possibly since v5 or v6.
Steve
by stevenedis
Sun Aug 27, 2017 9:20 pm
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: New thread based on "Margins problems when printed [solved]"
Replies: 3
Views: 3632

Re: New thread based on "Margins problems when printed [solv

As a first step, decide whether it is the Page Margins themselves that are not appearing where you want, or the music. Sibelius has a 'two-stage' margins process, there's the page margins, and the staff margins, which are the default distance of the staves from the page margins. Both are settable in...
by stevenedis
Tue Aug 22, 2017 8:10 am
Forum: General Sibelius Help
Topic: How to remove system separators only in parts?
Replies: 2
Views: 3032

Re: How to remove system separators only in parts?

In Engraving Rules>Instruments, you can specify how many staves a score has to have in order to trigger the appearance of system separators. I don't think it's possible to have different settings for score and parts, if you change either one the other gets changed too. However typically any one part...