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How can I add "free text" and place it where I need it. Such as Roman Numerals above the staff without putting in note names. I want to create chord progression sheets.
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Staff Text, System Text, Rehersal Marks, see http://musescore.org/en/handbook/text
If I understand:
See handbook: Text;
see the image, drag with the mouse the text. Franz
You can really use any of the available text types for this - syaff ext, system text, rehearsal marks, etc. And you can customize the style for those types so they display above the staff and in whatever font you choose.
But FWIW, why not simply uses the regular chord symbol facility? There is nothing to prevent you from entering Roman numerals instead of note names as a chord symbol. And the benefit is that you'd be able to take advantage of the convenience of chord symbol entry (spae bar to go to next note or beat, tab to go to next bar, etc).
I gather 2.0 will have a new facility for figured bass, which I assume would also work well for Roman numerals.
Scores of musescore can be imported into OpenOffice or Libreoffice.
This allows you to give precedence to the text and its formatting, and typesetting the beats. See:
http://musescore.org/en/node/17558#comment-63637
Franz
In reply to A doubt: by Shoichi
This is true, and having written that extension and using it extensively, I'll be the first to sing its praises :-). But I wouldn't recommend using this facility to add Roman numerals to music. Getting them to line up correctly with the notes would be *way* more work than adding them via MuseScore.
In reply to This is true, and having by Marc Sabatella
If I want to write music use MuseScore, is guaranteed.
And I can safely fill in the Roman or Arabic numerals in various ways.
It may happen that, for educational purposes, I have to write a lot and show only a few bars. So, if it prevails the textual form, I can take advantage of the opportunities of the program.
Is only a suggestion, not very clear what the purpose of wma, perhaps a lesson on Circle progression?
P.s. Marc, you can also lend a hand to Kathy with midi keyboard (in the top ten of difficulty)? I'm still studying the old posts...
Franz.
In reply to Let me explain. by Shoichi
Yes, the extension is great for educational worksheets thsat are mostly text with some notated examples. I just don't think that is what the person who asked the question had in mind. I think it was something like this:
I created this entering the Roman numerals as ordinary chord symbols, which is very quick and easy. Click a note, Ctrl-K, type a chord, hit space or tab to move to next note/beat or measure, type a chord, etc.
I have no expertise at all with MIDI setup, unfortunately.
In reply to Yes, the extension is great by Marc Sabatella
I read this old conversation
http://musescore.org/en/node/5881
So, in the appendix to the next handbook there might be a table (as in the handbooks, in general):
Problem / control / solution.
I do not know the others, but I have difficulty with English, let alone the Japanese ;-)
Thank you for your willingness