Adding text more easily to the bottom of the music
I would like to be able to add lines of text at the very bottom of the music such as reference lines or notes. So far the only way I have found to do this is to add some text like extra Composer or Subtitle then drag it to the bottom and change the font size. It would also be nice to be able to line up separate lines of text either by a grid or rulers and/or numerically.
Steven
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Have you tried using the Copyright line? You can insert text as part of the copyright for notes. 'Create>Text>Copyright.' Is that sort of what you're going for?
It might be nice to have a ruler or grid for text...
In reply to Copyright Line by Calem Bendell_
You might using Staff Text (Create > Text) inside a Vertical Frame (Create > Measures).
The frame can be resized, depending on the amount of space you require.
The text won’t wrap to the dimensions of the frame, though, so you’ll need to break the lines manually.
In reply to Try Staff Text and moving it to a Vertical Frame by [DELETED] 448831
Thanks for responding folks. I have tried creating a Vertical Frame but it only creates one above the measure and I can't find any way to get it to go under a staff or to the bottom of the page. I don't know if that is possible. My only workaround is maybe just to do the music and bring it into Scribus and add the rest of the text along with any art I may want.
Steven
In reply to Thanks for responding folks. by StevenD
Take a look to the file named Schnee.mscz in the demos folder of your MuseScore installation.
In reply to Take a look to the file named by [DELETED] 5
I consider myself a power user of MuseScore, but I don't get how to do this either. I opened and looked at the Schnee file that you recommended, and I see that it indeed has vertical frames at the bottom, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get a vertical frame UNDER the bottom staff.
I even looked in the handbook, and it says: "Vertical frames provide empty space between or before systems." Nothing about after systems.
In reply to I don't understand either.... by newsome
Create -> Measure -> Append vertical frame
In reply to Create -> Measure -> Append by [DELETED] 5
Okay this that worked. A bit funny in how it works but it did work. I would never have guessed that append vertical frame would do it.
Thanks for the help.
StevenD
In reply to Okay this that worked. A bit by StevenD
I think something is wrong here: when you ask for at horisontal frame you get a vertical frame ..and vice versa..
or am I completely wrong?
ph
In reply to I think something is wrong by ph
A horizontal frame adds horizontal space between measures. A vertical frame adds vertical space between measures.
The trouble with the words horizontal and vertical is they can be interpreted in different ways by different people. (Maybe you were thinking "horizontally shaped" which would give you the opposite impression). For a similar instance of this confusion see //musescore.org/en/node/3542 .
Do you have any suggestions for a unambiguous naming that avoids the words vertical or horizontal?
In reply to A horizontal frame adds by David Bolton
Maybe page wide and system wide ? or something along this line.
Currently the vertical frame is always the width of a page and a horizontal frame is the height of a measure/system
In reply to Maybe page wide and system by [DELETED] 5
For web authoring, CSS uses the language "inline" and "block level" to describe the same concept.
Perhaps "page-wide frame" and "inline frame" in MuseScore?
In reply to A horizontal frame adds by David Bolton
OK I see the point. I cannot for the moment find a short description for the menu, so I guess we just have to keep it as it is. After all when you have done it once you know what to use...
regards
ph
I tend to just add system text to the lowest note and drag it to the bottom. It's not ideal, but it works well enough.