Showing and Hiding Short and Long Instrument Names |
Composer optionally displays instrument (staff) names in the left margin of the window or printed page. Each staff has a long name and an abbreviation. Many MIDI files have staff names that are so long that too much of the printed page or viewing area of the screen would be wasted. Therefore, you may want to make the staff names shorter. In addition, you can specify a somewhat longer staff name for the beginning of the score, and a shorter staff name for subsequent pages of the score. This is a common practice in orchestral scores. Composer allows you to specify whether a long name or an abbreviation is displayed after the first page of a part. Or, you can omit the display of instrument names altogether. You can specify how instrument names are displayed on a per-part basis. For example, in a conductor's score you might want to display the instrument name abbreviations; whereas in individually printed parts, you might want to display no instrument name at all, except as page text at the top of the first page of the instrument part. To change the long name (or abbreviation) of an instrument name for a given staff:
To show (or hide) instrument names in the current score part:
-- OR -- Type "qsin" for Quick Show Instrument Names. To specify whether short or long instrument names are displayed or printed in the current score part, and whether they should be left- or right-justified or centered:
-- OR -- Type "qin" for Quick Instrument Names. Composer will display the following Instrument Name Options dialog box:
Note that you can edit the long and short instrument names for each individual staff using the Staff Setup command in the Staff menu.
To specify the instrument name display options that should be applied to any newly opened MIDI file or any newly created song:
-- OR -- Type "qin" for Quick Instrument Names.
If you create a new song using a template, then Composer will use the instrument name display options saved with the template. If you want to apply to this song the instrument name display options that you most recently saved as a default, then after you create the song you will need to follow the next procedure. If you want to always use the same instrument name display options with the template, then open the template .not file, and edit its instrument name display options. To apply the most recently saved Instrument Name Options the current score part:
-- OR -- Type "qin" for Quick Instrument Names.
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