How to search the MuseScore 4 Handbook with a Google query operator
MuseScore users have expressed frustration about searching the Handbook for MuseScore 4.
I believe these are the main reasons :
• Currently there’s no PDF edition of the v4 Handbook
• There’s no apparent tool on musicScore.org that restricts search results to the v4 Handbook alone, thus excluding forum posts
• To my knowledge the handbook is not available in a single HTML page which one could search with the Browser’s page search tool
• There's no index to the Handbook
Hopefully these situations will improve. But in the meantime ...
site:
"site:" is a standard Google search technique that can focus a search within the MuseScore 4 Handbook.
The site: operator contrains search results to a particular domain or to areas within a specific URL. (More on Google search operaters here.)
How to use the site: operator to refine your search to the English version of the MuseScore 4 Handbook. IMPORTANT NOTE: The listed search queries are not clickable here in the forum.
To test them out copy the entire line and paste into your Browser's address/search field.
In your browser's address/search field enter:
site:https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4
... followed by a space and then one or more terms you’re searching for.
Examples
Remember: Don't click the links below. Copy and paste the entire line!
site:https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4 +transposing
site:https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4 transposing
site:https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4 +Parts
site:https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4 Parts
site:https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4 +tablature
site:https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4 tablature
site:https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4 +palettes
site:https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4 palettes
site:https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4 +palettes mpal
site:https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4 +.mpal
site:https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4 mpal
How to search for the English MuseScore.org forums (and usually get more results than with MuseScore.org's internal search tool) :
site:https://musescore.org/en/forum repeats
site:https://musescore.org/en/forum endings
site:https://musescore.org/en/forum beaming
site:https://musescore.org/en/forum kontakt
Comments
I find it useful to search the full table of contents available here https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/full-table-contents using my browser's "find on page" function.
Unfortunately that page is two levels down from the Handbook landing page in the Appendices. It would be nicer and more discoverable if there was a link to the contents page directly from the landing page.
In reply to I find it useful to search… by SteveBlower
Thank you both, these are well written and useful instructions.
See comments about Google's PSE (Programable Search Engine)