At 01:48 PM 7/9/2005, you wrote:
How? I don't know how to create a metronome marking. I can choose your sequence of commands, but I have no idea what I'm supposed to type to get a valid metronome mark. Q=158? If I go to the Sibelius Demo help file (which is remarkably stupidly provided as a phenomenally slowly-loading Java applet, instead of either as a Windows Help File or as HTML, and one that even more stupidly copies the horrid interface of Windows HTML Help), I get no help on this topic. But I do find that Q=158 actually works. The problem, of course, is that I'd *never* want that appearing in a score -- I'd want the quarter note symbol. I haven't a clue how to insert that.
When you R-click in Create>Text> Metronome Mark , you get a context menu that has a Q note, as well as others, which you can select and then follow with =158 or whatever.
Likewise, the real thing that should be happening is that I should be able to define my tempo markings (like Allegro Vivace) to control tempo. I understand the concept of the dictionary (I think), but can't seem to get it to work reliably in having tempos set by them. > . . . Ctrl-right or left arrow will move you > measure by measure where plain arrow goes note to note - just like > the old Wordstar command. Pretty basic. Wordstar! I haven't used Wordstar since the 80s, and it wouldn't at all occur to me as a model for navigation commands for playback.
Well, my point is that every word program since has used the same commands. Ctrl as a magnification of a command is a basic Windows principle.
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