How to add a text block to a specific part
I would like to add a text block to a specific part and not have the block appear in other parts.
I am type-setting a Vivaldi Bassoon Concerto. In movement 2 the upper strings are tacet.
For those parts I would like to have the head of movement 3 (or the end of movement 2) to appear as:
..........................................II - Tacet
....................................... III - Allegro
(ignore the dots, I'm trying to show these lines centred).
Thus far I can only find ways to add a text block to all parts and there doesn't seem to be controls that will hide the text in the parts I don't want it displaying.
Richard
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Easiest way is probably to wait until you have done all the note entering and editing and then export the part(s) separately then add frames and text.
In reply to Easiest way is probably to by underquark
I suppose I could use that against the first bar of the 3rd movement and change the text characteristics and positioning to make it look as if it's a subtitle for movement 2.
Let me try that.
Richard
Yep, that works. It's a by handraullic but it will do.
Richard
You could simply use staff text instead of a text frame. Either way, I'm sure what you plan to do about the multimeasure rest that would normally appear though. Not fully understanding what you've got going on here; attaching the score would help.
In reply to You could simply use staff by Marc Sabatella
When an entire movement absents certain instruments it's often the practice not to print anything other than Tacet - no multi-measure rest (certainly the case in works such as oratorios with multiple movements). The instruments in questions are absent entirely from the score.
Richard
ok I see why this might not make sense. My process is this:
create a separate musescore file per movement.
extract the parts, but not as separate files so they remain linked to the score.
finish off the editing.
export the parts to pdf.
use the pdfjam package (specifically pdfjoin) to extract requisite pages from each movement then concatenate them into one pdf per instrument along with title page and preface when needed and intermediate blank pages where needed to assist with page turns.
Then generate the duplex book (using pdfbook from pdfjam) for each part on an oversize paper size such as 9"x12" or 10"x14" or what ever I'm working with.
It looks like a lot of steps but i use a bash script to do this with one command. It's pretty straight forward.
I might be able to simply my process with the use of sections, which I will now investigate.
Richard
In reply to When an entire movement by richardm999
I get that you would want the parts to not show the mmrest - my question was, how were you planning on accomplishing that? To me, that's the harder problem than figuring out how to display the text. That part is potentially easy - just use staff text and play with the formatting to get it to look how you want. You might then be able to hide enough stuff to prevent the mmrest from displaying. Or cover it with an opaque graphic - perhaps the "tacet" indication itself. But it sounds like your process might be able to handle that differently - like maybe *it* could handle replacing the empty movements with tacet indications.
In reply to I get that you would want the by Marc Sabatella
My process ie the pdf manipulation part can only operate on whole pages. But using stave text solves the problem for me.
Hiding the multi-bar measure if I were to use sections would be an interesting challenge. Familiarization with sections is long overdue.
It looks like I have multiple options available depending on just what combination of formatting I'm after.
Richard