text in columns
I try to fit text and notes into one page. Can I make the text in 2 colums. There are 4 verses and I want 2 verses in column one and 2 in column two.
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Add a vertical frame;
Copy the first verse (Ctrl + X);
Right-click in the vertical frame: Add-> text-> Ctrl + C;
Repeat the above steps with the second verse;
Select the second verse and drag it into place;
Repeat the above steps with the third verse;
Check the attachment ...
In reply to Add a vertical frame; Copy by Shoichi
Or append a vertical Frame, add 2 horizontal Frames into that make them nawwoere and place one to the right, then add your texts.
You'd need to get rid of that superfluos lyric in measure 13, verse 23(!) first though.
In reply to Or append a vertical Frame, by Jojo-Schmitz
How do I insert a frame inside another frame?
In reply to How do I insert a frame by Joe H
Nevermind - I think I have it.
In reply to Nevermind - I think I have by Joe H
Shoichi - You say Add a vertical frame. Is that Insert or Append (a vertical frame?)
In reply to Shoichi - You say Add a by Joe H
Insert always goes before the thing you have selected. Append goes *after* (actually, n this case, at the very end of the score). So which to use depends on where you want it.
In reply to Insert always goes before the by Marc Sabatella
The post says to add a vertical frame. I have no idea where it should go. The post does not say.
In reply to The post says to add a by Joe H
Wherever you want the text. If you want it before a given measure,. insert before that measure. If you want it at the end of the score, use append. As always, if you want more specific help, we really need you to attach your score and to describe more precisely what you want to d. Otherwise all we can do is answer generally or guess at what you want.
In reply to Wherever you want the text. by Marc Sabatella
OK. I appended a vertical frame. But I can not add a frame inside that frame. I tried to append an horizontal frame. But it situated under the vertical. One is not inside the other. And then both refused to accept any text. So I'm stuck there.
In reply to OK. I appended a vertical by Joe H
Once again, if you attach the actual sc ore, we can give you step by step instructions. As it is, we can only guess as to what you might be doing wrong. I'm going to guess you are not in fact right clicking the vertical frame when trying to add the horizontal one. Or that it *is* in fact being added, but you aren't seeing this because it is coming out the same size as the vertical frame by default (and you aren't noticing the handle that appears at the right). Hard to say for sure without seeing the score and precise steps to reproduce the problem, though.
In reply to Once again, if you attach the by Marc Sabatella
Yes, that's what I was doing wrong - the right click. So now I have two horizonal frames placed into a vertical frame, giving me two columns - but still the cursor is not appearing in either column, so I can't paste the text.
In reply to Yes, that's what I was doing by Joe H
Huh. In the first pages I did, I simply placed a text frame first. Maybe that is what I am doing wrong? I appended a vertical frame and then added two horizontals. But I failed to placed the text frame before I did those. Back to the drawing board.
In reply to Yes, that's what I was doing by Joe H
Right click on frame; select: Add> Text...
In reply to Right click on frame; select: by Ziya Mete Demircan
What is the order for all three operations? Vertical, horizontal and text.
In reply to What is the order for all by Joe H
see attachment.
1. create Vertical,
2. Right click on vertical and
3. add Horizontal (Adjust size),
4. add Horizontal (Adjust Size).
5. Right click on first Horizontal; --> add text.
5. Right click on second Horizontal; ---> then add text.
In reply to see attachment. 1. create by Ziya Mete Demircan
Thank you, Ziya.
In reply to Yes, that's what I was doing by Joe H
To insert text in a horizontal frame, you need to right click, Add / Text. There won't be a cursor otherwise, because horizontal frames are also used for purposes other than text. So in your attachment, all you need to do is right click one of the horizontal frames, Add / Text, and type. Then do the same for the other.
Right now, though, you don't really have two columns. You have one horizontal frame that extends the full width of the page, and the other that extends from the left edge to the mid point. You need to move that smaller frame to the right - just drag it (it will snap to the right margin). You can do that either before or adding text to it. Probably easiest would be to do this *first*, before even adding the second horizontal frame.
So, in general:
1) add vertical frame
2) add a horizontal frame to that vertical frame
3) resize that horizontal frame to be only half the width of the page
4) move it to the right
5) add the second horizontal frame to the vertical frame
6) resize it
Then your two columns are set up and you can add the text. You can fine tune sizes later.
In reply to To insert text in a by Marc Sabatella
That works.
In reply to That works. by Joe H
Hi this look to be broken in 2.3.2, horizontal frame inside a vertival frame start at offset 0, am I missing something?
In reply to Hi this look to be broken in… by gbordier71
@gbordier71, see: https://musescore.org/en/node/112116
HTH