Formatting a Part Using a Template |
Using commands in the Part menu, you can specify many details about how a part is formatted: the page setup, overall font size, horizontal and vertical spacing,font size for types of text, showing or hiding types of music annotations, showing or hiding instrument names, hiding empty staves and displaying "easy notes". You can save this formatting as a template that is offered by the New Song Wizard when you create a new song. You can also use apply your template to other songs using the Format Part Using Template command in the Format menu.
TIP: When you import a MIDI file, Composer uses the template file \Program Files\Notation\Composer\Templates\MidiFileDefault.not to format the transcribed score. You can customize the default formatting of MIDI scores by editing that this MidiFileDefault.not file.
You might also want to modify some of Composer's default templates to adopt the formatting you want. You can directly edit the formatting of Composer's templates. You can also open one of Composer's templates and copy the formatting from your own template. To save the formatting of a currently viewed part as a template:
To apply the formatting of a template to a currently viewed part:
Composer will display a File Open dialog box, and will initially display the files in the \Program Files\Notation\Composer\Templates directory.
Composer will apply the formatting of the most recently opened part in the template to the part that you are currently viewing. To apply the formatting of a template to multiple parts in a song:
To customize the formatting of one of Composer's default templates:
To quickly customize the formatting of Composer's default templates:
For example, if you use Composer's "Voice and Piano" template when you create new songs, then apply this procedure to the file \Program Files\Notation\Composer\Templates\Voice and Piano.not. |