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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