Measure Numbers

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Notation Player offers several options for displaying measure numbers, such as at every 5th measure, or at the first measure of every system.

If a large musical work is divided into more than one MIDI file, then you might want the measure number of the second file to follow the last measure number of the previous file. You can do this as described below.

prcarrowTo choose a measure numbering option:

1.In the Score menu choose the Measure Numbers command.

Notation Player will display the Measure Numbers dialog:

       MeasureNumbersDlg
2.Choose one of the options in the dialog, and click OK.

All of the options are self-explanatory except perhaps for the first one: "first measure of every system". A system is one line of measures on a page. The line of measures includes the staves for all of the instruments or voices that are playing. Thus, this option displays a measure number at the first measure of each line (system) on each page of the score.

prcarrowTo specify some starting measure number, other than 1, for the continuation of a song in a second MIDI file:

B846Follow the same procedure as above. Enter the starting measure of the second .not file in the "First measure number" field of the Measure Numbers dialog box.