How to professionally add long and short instrument names. Hal Leonard
How do I do the following in MuseScore? I've tried going into staff properties and moving things around to no avail. The number don't seem to align perfectly, and I feel that I am walking in the dark to try and figure how many spaces they need to be apart, et. There has to be an easy way to do this. I've only managed to do the short instrument name for the Violins, but even then if you look closely the 1 isn't perfectly centered. I really hope there is a way to do this at the level of Hal Leonard inside MuseScore. I will privately send the score to anyone who is willing to help. Thank you.
Best,
Daniel Ani
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Comments
In picture 1,
When you add instruments, add only 1 instrument then add a staff to the instrument. You will need to fix the clef since the second staff will default to a bass clef. You can then put a bracket on the instrument.
with the exception of the bassoon, you need to use the short name and play with the spacing (. = a space in the below example)
...........1
Fl.
...........2
until it looks good to you. You may need to put an extra return before and after the Fl.
For the bassoon, you will never get the exact display, but you will need to do a similar thing with the instrument name as you did with the flute and other instruments.
In picture 2 you will need to play with spacing to make it look good. Once again, the bassoon will never look exactly like that. You will want individual instruments for everything but the horns, where you will want two staves on one horn instrument.
For the numbers that you can't get to look right like the 1&2 for the bassoon in picture 2 you have the option of using staff text to enter these numbers. There are things that you can do to make it easier. Wait until the score is otherwise finished before adding these staff texts since you will know where they are needed at that point and you can put system breaks to assure the measures will never move to another system and mess up the numbers. At this point you can also format the number for an instrument once then copy and paste it to the other systems with little editing required.
The bottom line is that MuseScore does not make this easy, so you have to decide what you find the best route to do what you want and how much work you are willing to put into fixing this.
In reply to In picture 1, When you add… by mike320
Thank you mike320 so much. I really really appreciate it.
In reply to In picture 1, When you add… by mike320
Hey Mike320, how would I request that this feature be added to the next update of MuseScore 3? Man, that was so much labor and work. I had to add staff text to 20 pages of orchestral music. I can't even imagine doing it for a longer piece. I feel that little things like this add up and may make MuseScore appear non-professional to other professional engravers. But thanks for the help yesterday.
In reply to Hey Mike320, how would I… by [DELETED] 32474217
I would say that if #279870: Proposed Bracket Functionality were implemented well, it would greatly simplify the process of making part names the way they are in the pictures. I have added a link to that issue and pointed to you and me as supporters of this idea.