Creating Your Own Song Templates |
If over time you intend to create several songs for the same ensemble, or even for a solo instrument for which there is not a pre-defined blank score, , then it is a good idea to create your own customized song template. This is easy to do. A song template really is nothing more than a Notation (.not) file that you have chosen to reuse often as a starting point for a new song. A song template is kept in a special directory, which is typically C:\Program Files\Notation\Composer\Templates. When you use the New Song Wizard, Composer offers you the list of Notation (.not) files in this directory as candidate templates for your new song. You can prepare and add your own song template to this list. Note that you can use song templates not only when you are creating a new song, but also when you want to apply formatting to an existing song. See the description of the Format Part Using Template command in the Format menu. To create a song template: -- OR -- Open a song file that already has the intended list of instruments. Remove all of the notes and musical annotations in it.
See, Adding New Staves, Changing the Instrument Sound of a Staff, and Deleting Staves.
Note that if you remove all page text from a song template, Composer automatically adds certain page text to any new score created from the template. On the first page, Composer will add a song title. On subsequent pages, Composer will add a page header, consisting of the song title and page number.
To edit an existing song template:
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