Force Line Break for Instrument name
I would like to have line break for instrument name (and also italic too, but happens that I figured it out so it's not covered in this topic), and while I can do that by Ctrl+enter in the textbox of instrument name, after saved and reopened it didn't register anymore. I'm not sure if it's some sort of bugs (though it can be annoying considering that if one have multiple instrument changes throughout the score), or the input tag doesn't register. Though html tag < i > < /i > works, < br > doesn't. (I have to seperate it with space, if not this textbox will not render it as well.) As you can see from my screenshot, the second one is what I would like to achieve, but in the event of reopening the score changed it back to the first state.
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I always just press enter to get the second line. Most of my scores use two lines for the instrument names and did not have a problem with that.
I am not changing font size and styles in the dialog, not sure if that make things different.
Not sure why you have the extra font size and name include in the dialog. Check this image:
This works fine. Just hit enter when you want to get the second line.
In reply to I always just press enter to… by Henk De Groot
And here an example in case you want the second line to use a smaller text size:
In reply to And here an example in case… by Henk De Groot
I was copying a score, hence I need to follow the exact details of the original score (aesthetic purpose too), hence the smaller text size.
As for the line break, I have no problem getting it initially, but once I save and reopen the score, the line break seems to not work. I'm not sure if your case have you met such a problem before.
And for the extra font name and those are due to me edit in Staff text box first before cut and paste it into instruments text lol, save my time from typing <>.
In reply to I was copying a score, hence… by NDDD
i am also slightly annoyed by this feature that changing the instrument has the side effect of setting the long/short name for the staff. While this might make sense in most cases, for dealing with percussion it is not.
I even thought at some point there was an option added to allow this behaviour to be set/unset but can't find it.
What I usually do is first make sure that all instrument changes are in place, and then update them all to set the desired text in the long/short name field. I believe I have seen that some updates/reformatting of the score have effect on the names, hence why I do it once all instrument changes are in place.
I haven't had an event that it lost the changes I made when I follow the procedure above.
Edit:
Found out that it's the HTML tag that is messing up the line break.
The < font face > will not register the line break or mess the line break up after save.
The wrong one:
< font size="10" >< /font >< font face="Edwin" >< /font >< i >*Perc.2< /i >
< font size="9" >< /font >< font face="Edwin" >< /font >< i >(Cab.)< /i >
The correct one (which the line break will stay afterwards):
< font size="10" >< /font >< i >*Perc.2< /i >
< font size="9" >< /font >< i >(Cab.)< /i >
In reply to Edit: Found out that it's… by NDDD
I can confirm I have the behaviour when using the HTML tag like.
Even when you would place the tags in the correct order.