What is the best way to produce a cheat book for about 300 scores?
That type of book:
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Use MuseScore 2 and its Album feature.
Or export all to PDF and use PDFSaM to glue the PDFs together (my current solution, for a 400+ 1-2 pages scores songbook)
Or for the above example use section breaks and horizontal frames
In reply to Ise MuseScore 2 and its… by Jojo-Schmitz
Ok and if I'm ready to copy/paste the notes in a new MuseScore file, is it possible to organize the layout in two columns? Because some of the scores already exist, but goal is to get only the first two measures of each, would the album feature do that?
In reply to Ok and if I'm ready to copy… by frfancha
the Album feature would not do that column layout
In reply to the Album feature would not… by Jojo-Schmitz
Ok then surely not album, I really need the two columns layout
In reply to Ok and if I'm ready to copy… by frfancha
To be clear: the albums feature has nothing to do with generating those "incipits" (the technical term for what you are calling a "cheat book". it's just a way of combining the scores themselves. Generating incipits needs to be done manually - or at least, using some other tool. Probably if you export all your scores to MusicXML format, someone could write a script in music21 that would generate a new set of incipits like that and somehow combine them and export them. Or maybe a plugin could, within MuseScore.
In reply to To be clear: the albums… by Marc Sabatella
My question was unclear, so let me better explain :
I'm not worried about generating incipits.
I don't mind retyping these notes.
I'm worried about getting the 2 cols design.
In reply to My question was unclear, so… by frfancha
I think you will have quite some work. The example you showed was created with ABC and some scripts (explained on website).
![Fake_2_columns.png]()
Getting such done with a certain quality will require either a lot of know-how or a lot of work.
Musescore itself doesn't support 2 columns but out of curiousity I tried to fake it:
To get this done with 300 snippets will become a nightmare :-)
Every time you insert a time signature all following bars will be rewritten and become a mess. Inserting key signatures will require you to hide stuff and correct barlines etc. Getting the white gap into the middle requires widening the spacing of the bars of the left column by eye sight.
And finally if you have forgotten one piece and want to add it afterwards you will start screaming :-)
Short: I wouldn't do it. If I were to have such done I would use LibreOffice and images of the beginnings and write a macro. Or try export as musicxml, convert to ABC and use the scripts like described in the original source on the website.
In reply to I think you will have quite… by musikai
Thanks for having done the exploratory work for me!
So I'll probably use LilyPond for this specific goal.
Getting the left column at the correct size within MuseScore might prove hard.
A possible workaround is to create your score on custom paper of only half the width and export that to PDF.
Then using a PDF viewer, print again to PDF and combine them back onto a single page?
Here's an example done with Adobe Acrobat Viewer (choose "custom" page combine settings and set to 2:1 ratio).
In reply to Getting the left column at… by jeetee
Quite honestly, I see the need for a programmer. Or, someone who's proficient with desktop-publishing software and the automation thereof. You would drive yourself crazy, methinks, trying to do the assembly of the final document directly in MuseScore. There's GOT to be a better way to do that final step . . .
You ought to be able to concern yourself with filling out 300 accurate records in some kind of computer database, then "push the button" to do the tedious part in a matter of seconds.
Are all the scores already uploaded onto musescore.com? Do you want the scores to be able to play back from the cheat sheet. If so, you can do this with a webpage but you will need the URL of each score.