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sus4
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Post by sus4 » Mon Apr 18, 2022 7:16 pm

I want to add text to the first page of my score, but I don't want it to appear on all the parts. How do I do that? Thanks.


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Post by MikeLyons » Tue Apr 19, 2022 6:29 am

If you don't want it to appear on any of the parts, use a staff text (technique/expression/plain text) and precede it with a tilde (~).

If you need it to appear on only one part, use an appropriate text style (as above) but make sure to attach it to the staff it will show on in the score.
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Post by sus4 » Wed Apr 20, 2022 8:17 pm

I'm using Plain Text and I put the Tilde just to the left of what I typed in just under the name of my score. When I hit exc the text turns gray, but I'm still seeing the text on the 1st Alto part which I don't want. I'm using a Mac. What am I doing wrong?

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Post by MikeLyons » Wed Apr 20, 2022 9:03 pm

The only thing that springs to mind is that you may be using an older version of Sib with a MacOS that doesn't support it. Many people have reported ridiculous amounts of weird text issues in this situation.
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Post by sus4 » Thu Apr 21, 2022 3:52 pm

The version of Sibelius I'm using is 8.4.2. Is there another way of entering text just under the title of the 1st score page and not going onto the individual parts?

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Post by andyg » Thu Apr 21, 2022 6:41 pm

Mac or Windows? If Mac, what operating system. It may make a big difference!

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Post by MikeLyons » Thu Apr 21, 2022 9:16 pm

To reprise: If you are using Sib 8.x on any MacOS later than 10.12 or 10.13 you will experience many weird issues with text.

You have not clearly explained what it is you are trying to do. If you want text to only appear in the score, use Hide-->Show-->Show in Score. Any text so marked will not show in any of the parts.

If this doesn't help, you are going to have to show us what you mean.
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Post by sus4 » Sat Apr 23, 2022 10:37 pm

That's exactly what I want. I want the text to appear on the first page of the score and not on the parts. Sorry if I didn't make myself clear. Where do I find Hide-->Show-->Show in Score? I'm using a Mac computer. My OS is Catalina version 10.15.7. and I"m using Sibelius version 8.4.2. Thanks.

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Post by MikeLyons » Sun Apr 24, 2022 7:52 am

As we said to you. If you are trying to run Sib 8 on any MacOS later than 10.12 or 10.13 you will get these weird text inputting issues. It is because Apple have changed the OS so much that this version of Sib is no longer fully compatible. There is nothing you can do to remedy these weirdnesses except to:

1. Upgrade Sibelius to Sibelius Ultimate 2022.3
2. Downgrade the MacOS to either 10.12 or 10.13

I stress (and people will tell you that I do not defend Avid readily) that this is APPLE's doing. Avid are innocent in this case.

As to where the hide/show is hidden - right-click on the item you want to hide or show and choose Hide or Show from the pop-up menu; or look in the ribbon under the Home Tab-->Hide or Show.
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Post by sus4 » Sun Apr 24, 2022 9:20 pm

Hide/Show under the Home tab does exactly what I want. Thanks.

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