Copyright Text - Page one only
Good morning!
We need to have a way to have copyright text defaulting only to the bottom of page one of a score.
Currently, the only place to add such text is in the general score Header/Footer, which places copyright across all pages, rather than just page one.
In the Add > Text menu, there are options for Title, Composer, etc. It should be easy enough to also add "Copyright" in this menu option. The application is already pulling the copyright from score properties, so from here it should just be a quick and easy page placement function, correct?
Better yet, can copyright (and for that matter, Title, Composer, etc.) automatically place those texts based on the Score Properties pane?
Thanks!
Ryan
Comments
Use the marco $C in header/footer, it is there exactly for that purpose
In reply to Use the marco $C in header… by Jojo-Schmitz
This should be the default setting for the program; it absolutely should not start off by imprinting the copyright on all pages.
Yes - I can go in to change that. But I shouldn't need to alter the application's defaults to go from nonstandard to standard. The program's defaults should always fall to standard engraving practices.
In reply to This should be the default… by Ryan
Copyright notice is in most of my scores and books on every page. I am just myself of course, but at least in my collection, what MuseScore currently does is standard.
In reply to This should be the default… by Ryan
Both ways are used in published and printed scores, MuseScore provides both, pick your choice
In reply to Use the marco $C in header… by Jojo-Schmitz
Everybody says this and it doesn't work. I've tried about a 100 times to make it work and it still keeps showing up on all pages. This is the most annoying feature of Musescore.
In reply to Everybody says this and it… by Jan Powell
It surely does work. Make sure you use $C (upper case C).
$c (lower case c) adds copyright to the header or footer in every page.
In reply to It surely does work. Make… by SteveBlower
Thanks for the help. It works. I'm an idiot. lol
In reply to Everybody says this and it… by Jan Powell
Could be you are using a template that has custom copyright settings, but the default is absolutely first page only, and has been for as long as I can remember. If your template does use something else, or you've been experimenting with it, just return it to the default. You should see "$C" in the footer field in Format / Style / Header, footer. Just that and literally nothing else (unless there is something else you do want to see on all pages).
The default settings - which work perfectly - look like this:
If you continue to have trouble after making sure your settings look like that - exactly like the default - please attach your score so we can understand and assist better.
In reply to Could be you are using a… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you so much. It took a minute to realize I needed to enter the copyright info in "properties" and not in the "footer/header" dialogue. I'll write it down.
And all OpenScore works have the copyright notice on every page. So it's not an unusual setting to use as the default.
If this default irritates you a lot, why not set up a Template score with your preferred setting?
It's also worth mentioning that what is "standard" depends on very many factors. At different times in history and in different countries around the world, copyright law has been written or interpreted to require the message on all pages. Also, the conventions often differ for works collected into books versus works pubished on their own, and of course, Internet publishing comes with its own set of considerations (the much greater likelihood of passages being found out of context).
So indeed, while there might be a majority of printed scores published in the past with copyright on the first page only, that's not the only consideration in choosing a default for a modern application designed to produce scores that may well be shared worldwide and online. That said, I'm also not opposed to our changing the default if there is sufficient consensus here.