Like many things in Finale, the text tool offers a lot of power and control, but also many options to navigate. Here’s how to tame the type.
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Score preparation and production notes
Originally appearing as a document that composer David MacDonald created for his weekly master class, this bullet-list of score preparation and production notes will improve the quality of your performance materials in no time. To it we have added relevant links from Scoring Notes and other sources.
Smarter title pages for parts in Sibelius
We already showed you how to do it in Finale; now, here’s a clever and useful way in Sibelius to have the part name, title, and composer consistently appear the same — and in the same place — on your title page and the first page of your part.
Smarter title pages for parts in Finale
Here’s a clever and useful way in Finale to have the part name, title, and composer consistently appear the same — and in the same place — on your title page and the first page of your part.
How to fix a common page numbering problem in Sibelius
If your Sibelius score suffers from an ailment where the page numbers unintentionally deviate from the conventions of left and right numbering, we have both the diagnosis and the cure.
Sibelius plug-in: Page Numbers
Here’s a powerful Sibelius plug-in that can instantly hide or show all the page numbers in the score, parts, or both — something that previously had to be done one page number region at a time and one part at a time.
Working with page numbers in Sibelius
Page numbers in Sibelius can be a bit of a mystery if you need to change their defaults. This in-depth post will take you through how page numbers are created, controlled, and modified in Sibelius.