Showing and printing arranger as well as composser
I've transcribed a harp piece I found on YouTube and want to have the arranger as well as composer show when I print, but I can't figure out how to get MuseScore to show anything but title and composer. I've entered the information in Project Properties, just can't get it to show.
Thanks for any help you can give.
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Just add it to the composer in the title frame
In reply to Just add it to the composer… by Jojo-Schmitz
So, is there no way to edit the title frame? (Perhaps I want to say the Default title frame.) To automatically include additional information? As you can for Header and Footer? (I had thought it was on that same tab under Format / Style, but it's not.)
In reply to So, is there no way to edit… by TheHutch
No
In reply to No by Jojo-Schmitz
Hunh! I had thought it was.
In that case, is it possible to include the various fields from the Project properties screen in a normal text frame? Or in a vertical frame containing text?
[A few moments later] Hmm, for that matter, I can't even seem to get the metadata to appear in the Header and Footer. For example, I'm putting ...
$:composer
... in the Header and it doesn't include anything. When I include
$:arranger
... in the Header, it types, not the value of the metadata arranger, but the word "arranger".
Pretty sure I'm doing something wrong here :-(
In reply to Hunh! I had thought it was… by TheHutch
Try a colon after the tag in addition to the one after the $
Like so
$:composer:
[Edit] This syntax is relevant only for header/footer.
In reply to Hunh! I had thought it was… by TheHutch
No, these work only in header and footer
I'm pretty sure older versions of MuseScore allowed you to have more in the header - if I'm remembering this correctly, any developers following who can see about adding back this function, or adding it in if it wasn't there before?
In reply to I'm pretty sure older… by ErichBuehler
You can have all meta tags in header and footer. No change in any MueScore version there
But none in the title frame in no version of MuseScore...
In reply to You can have all meta tags… by Jojo-Schmitz
Not the meta tags, I mean what is seen/printed in the score
In reply to Not the meta tags, I mean… by ErichBuehler
Honestly, this whole issue surprises me - being able to print the arranger as well as composer without having to fudge it by typing all in one field seems like a fairly basic functionality for this kind of program
In reply to Honestly, this whole issue… by ErichBuehler
I think I understand it, even if I didn't know how to implement it until SteveBlower's post above. (Thanks, Steve!! That got it working for me :-)
The Title, Subtitle, Lyricist, and Composer values in the Title frame are not there as tagged metadata, they are not entered as "variables". Instead, they are specific text values. That is, rather than having the code $:subtitle:, it writes the text "My Score" (or whatever your title is) into that field when you create the score. It gets that value from the New Score dialog ... which also feeds the Project Properties dialog. But that Title Frame never gets any info from the Project Properties.
This is why, if you create a Vertical Frame and you right-click / Add / Title, you don't get the "Title" value from Project Properties, you get a blank text field with the Text Style of "Title".
I suspect I know why that choice was made, but I must admit I think it was the wrong choice. I think that we should be able to enter any metadata tag anyplace you could type text and have it fill the field with the value from Project Properties.
For example, I could then enter a field in the Title Frame and put %:arranger: in it. I could also have a paragraph of background information in a text field somewhere and include the metadata there as well. With that in place, when I later discover that I've spelled the Arranger's name wrong, I can correct it in Project Properties and it would be automagically corrected everyplace I've included that tag.
Similarly, I could put the tag for Title (which, oddly, does not appear to exist???) in the Title Frame, in the Header, and in descriptive paragraphs at the beginning of each of five moments and, when I change the Title in Project Properties, MuS would change it automagically throughout.
I believe I understand why it's not the default, but I don't understand why it's not available as an option. (Personally, I would have made it the default, but I wasn't involved in the coding and am only starting in that direction now.)