Rocky Road - in Oz wrote: Can Sibelius
* Hide time signatures and key signatures * Hide rests
Yes. Right click on the note, choose "hide" from the context menu.
* Measures which allow any number of notes in them (such as a notated scale of eight whole notes without needing to make a 32/4 time sig).
Not exactly but once you've hidden the time sig, why would it matter?
* Move individual noteheads in a measure (eg: to make space at the end of a measure)
Yes. Just drag the note. You will have to outthink the auto formatting but it can be done. You might also consider inputting a note or rest and then hidding it to leave space in a bar.
* Exporting of a selection to TIFF or EPS
Yes. In v.4 you can now export as a graphic directly to the clipboard and paste into any document that supports graphic pasting via standard windows methods. I am not familiar with Mac but know that similar capability exists.
Does Sibelius have this flexibility for measures that are a bit odd in their timing or positioning?
Yes. You can easily drag the left end of a stave to any indented position wanted. Dragging the right edge is not so well documented but if you point to the middle line, a little box (handle?) appears which you can then drag to right indentation you want.
You can also choose "hidden" as a staff attribute for any portion of a stave. Right click away any blank part of the page. Near the bottom of the context menu you will find change staff type. Select "hidden". Point to where you want to start the hidden stave and click. A selection rectangle appears. You can drag it to any position where you want to hide the stave. Repeating the process but selecting a normal stave will give you a pair of "bookends" that you may drag in either direction to choose precisely what parts of the stave you want hidden and what you want to be seen. It's much easier to do than to explain.
It is worth pointing out that Sibelius 4 also includes a "worksheet creator" with about 1700 resources that can be used either with a wizard or independently to create worksheets. It's very through and flexible.
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