Thanks Christopher
The first method you suggest would be ideal were it not for the
several drawbacks you mention. Regrettably, these make it unusable. I
will examine your other suggestions.
Regards
John
On 2 Mar 2006, at 21:38, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Mar 2, 2006, at 4:18 PM, John Bell wrote:
In orchestral parts, what's the best way to get the instrument
name to appear as a header or footer on every page (or every other
page)?
Here's a possibility:
In your score, create a text block (or add to the existing one that
presently has the title on page 2 on) and select from the Text
menu>Inserts>File name. This will look pretty stupid in your score,
but it's only for the purposes of part extraction.
When you extract the parts, make the name that they will be
extracted under ONLY "%s" (no quotes.) This means that your parts
will extract with ONLY the staff name as a file name.
Now each extracted part will have the staff name that it had in the
score, magically appearing in the page 2 text block.
The drawbacks of this are: your hard drive will be FULL of files
called "Flute 1" and so forth with no other way of identifying
them, except for the folder that it is in, which presumably would
contain the title of the work in its folder name. If you are
comfortable with this, then no problem. It gives me the willies,
frankly.
Also, on Mac one doesn't need file extensions, but I think on
Windows you do, so the instrument name would be something like
"Flute 1.MUS" instead of just "Flute 1", which would look pretty
dumb. Perhaps a Windows user could confirm this.
Another possibility, which I use myself, is to have "Description"
inserted in the text block instead. For each extracted part, I
manually open up "File Info" and in the Description box type in the
name I want to appear on page 2 +. I have trouble remembering how
to type flats, so instrument transpositions don't usually make it
into this description.
This last method replaces my original method, which was to have the
word "Instrument" in the text block, and I would manually edit it
to the instrument name. It's about the same amount of work, unless
I am using Brian William's Special Part Extraction method, in which
case the Description method is the best for me, as this is also the
instrument name on the FIRST page, too. so I don't have to type it
twice.
Christopher
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