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This section covers editing text, lyrics and chord symbols. SmartScore attempts to distinguish between chord symbols, lyrics and between "dumb" and "performance" text when music is recognized. Dynamic and tempo text markings become applied to playback when recognized. Only "dumb" text fields are editable in Text mode.Text fields are associated with the nearest staffline. To ensure text is associated with a particular staff, move the cursor over the staff first.
NOTE: It will not be possible to do other sorts of editing other than text or lyrics in either of these modes. It will be necessary to push "T" or "L" again to exit the mode first.
b. Drag left or right to highlight one or more characters within the field. Typing will replace the characters. Hit the Delete key to remove highlighted characters. Text can also be cut, copied or pasted elsewhere using standard Ctrl +"X", "C" and "V" shortcuts (Cmnd + "X", "C" and "V" for Mac).
a. To delete more than one text field, use the Select tool ("O" key) to select and highlight text in yellow. Hit the Delete (Del) key removes all highlighted text fields.
b. Quick-select (Ctrl+click) any text field, hit the "X" key (cursor goes grey) and click again on any text field to remove it.
a. Use the Select Tool and drag the cursor to highlight a multiple text fields. Release the mouse button. Selected text fields will turn from yellow to green-grey.
c. Dragging one control box of a highlighted text field will move all selected text fields together.
Score headers are not considered "text". They are unique tags.
With Selector tool active, drag the positioning tab associated with the score header found in the left-hand margin up or down.
A lyric "block" is a string of characters equivalent to a spoken syllable. Out of recognition, a lyric block becomes associated with a single note or rest in the staffline immediately above it. Locating the note or rest associated with a lyric block is as simple as searching directly above the center-justified lyric block. All lyric blocks within stafflines are horizontally linked and are separated from each other by dashes, underlines and/or periods.NOTE: Lyrics may be found below a system (e.g. some choral scores) and a special option should be selected before Recognition. See "Lyrics Under Last Staff of Systems".
b. Click into a lyric block or on an associated note or rest. Once highlighted, text within the block can be edited like normal text.
c. Click and drag inside a lyric block to highlight characters for editing. Use the left arrow, right arrow or spacebar on your keyboard to navigate within a lyric block. Once positioned, type normally.
d. To delete one or more characters in a lyric block, highlight one or more characters within the block to replace with new characters or . Characters can also be cut, copied or pasted elsewhere using standard Ctrl + "X", "C" and "V" keyboard shortcuts (Cmnd + "X", "C" and "V" for Mac).
e. To edit a lyric block below the current line of lyrics, click into the topmost line of lyrics and use the down arrow key. Cursor will enter the next block in lyric line immediately below.
f. To create a new lyric line, hit Return anywhere in a lyric line. A new lyric line will be created at the first note of the system.
a. Hold the Shift key down (Nudge mod)e, locate the yellow control handle along the left-most barline of the system.
Dashes, spaces and underscores are special characters used to separate lyric blocks. Typing any of these characters will move the cursor to the next block. The Backspace key deletes dashes, spaces and underscores.
In the following example, the block "der-" was missed in recognition. The cursor was positioned at the end of the previous block. A dash was entered to create a new "syllabic" block and the correct text was then entered.
Dash = Moves the cursor to next lyric block and inserts a dash. Normally used to connect multiple syllables within a single word.
Space = Moves the cursor to the next lyric block. Normally used to separate words. Does not insert a dash or an underline.
Underline = Normally used as a "melisma", an underline indicates that one vocal sound should be extended over two or more beats. Inserting creates an underline up to the next block. Entering multiple underlines will string them together over several lyric blocks.
Backspace = Deletes characters inside a lyric block. Also deletes hyphens when backspacing from one lyric block to the next.
Carriage Return = Creates a new lyric line and positions cursor in the first lyric block below beginning note or rest of the staffline.
Nudging note heads horizontally is a good way to verify that a particular lyric block is indeed associated with a note stem. In a similar way, Nudge mode is useful in verifying that vertical events are properly aligned. Refer to "Checking vertical alignment of voices" for more information.
Horizontally nudge the upper note (Voice #1) of a vertically aligned set of notes and/or rests. All vertically aligned (joined) notes or rests will move together.
Out of recognition, all text fields and lyric blocks are matched to the closest font type and size available on your computer. You can change the font type, size and color of text and lyrics. This is useful if lyrics appear too large. Modifying the style of any lyric block will change ALL lyric blocks because lyric blocks are tightly integrated and text fields are not (they're "dumb").
a. Push the "T" button to enter Text mode. Click into any text field. While the cursor is blinking, right-click (alt/option + click for Mac) to open the Style window.
b. For lyrics, push the "L" button and click on either the associated note or rest or directly into a lyric field. Right-click to open the Style window (alt / option + click for Mac).
The current text style will be highlighted in the Text Style window. Other font styles found in the current document will also be displayed. All installed fonts and text styles (including non-Western symbols) are available for selection.
c. Click on the style you wish to change and then select "Modify Style". "Add Style" and "Delete Style" options are also available.
The Font window is where the current font name, style, size and color are displayed. Choose an alternative font, style, size or color. OK will apply the change and exit the "Font" window. OK in "Styles" will close that window. Selected fields will then be updated.
NOTE: The Text Sytles window is also accessible in Document Preferences (File > Document Preferences).
Non-lyric and non-text symbols (e.g. dynamic and tempo markings) which appear as text are also editable.
Open Edit > Document Preferences. The Text Symbols tab appears as follows:
Guitar fret diagrams are recognized automatically. Even chord symbols written as text can be automatically converted to fret symbols. (See "Recognition Options"). You can display either the chord symbol or the fret diagram, or both. When transposing keys, the root of all chord symbols will automatically update. Only chord symbols associated with a guitar fret will be updated. Chord symbols alone, recognized without frets, are only "dumb" text. See " "Following recognition" for an easy method of removing "dumb" chord names recognized as text.If no fret symbol was recognized, it can be selected and inserted.
e. If the selected chord name matches one stored in the library, a corresponding fret configuration will appear in the right window.
If the chord name you are creating does not exist in the library or if you want to create a new fingering configuration for the same chord name,
b. In the Label tab window, select a Root chord name. Add Sharp, Flat, Tonality, Extension and Augmentation as necessary.
c. Press the Frets tab in the upper part of the window to open the fingering and symbols editor. Edit options are as follows:
String Marker (dot) places a finger marker on any string between frets on the fretboard. Clicking above the fretboard nut (thick line) places an open string symbol (open dot) at any string position.
Barre Marker (arc) places a barre marker above the fretboard by dragging above the nut. When dragged across strings inside the fretboard, the barre marker is positioned between frets.
Mute-string marker (x) places an X above any string position to indicate a muted string. When clicked above the nut, any finger marker of that string is deleted.
For banjo, ukulele, bass or other non-six string fretted instrument or for chords that require more range than 4 frets, choose the configuration you wish from Strings x Frets combo box.
To show fingerings in other than 1st position, choose from Position Selector. The solid line represents the fret position.
The newly created chord and symbol will be written to the library.
If you want to change the fingering / fret configuration of an existing symbol follow the steps in "Choosing a fret / chord symbol from the library,".
c. A corresponding fret configuration will appear in the window if the complete chord name matches one stored in the library.
d. Click OK if the chord name / fingering configuration is acceptable. The ENF fret diagram and chord symbol will update.
NOTE: Some chords have more than one fingering configuration. When Primary is checked, that configuration will appear before other chords having the same name.
Following recognition, you may see some fret symbols without chord names. To add these new configurations to the Guitar Chord Library,
a. Position your cursor over a fretboard without a chord name and Quick-select (Ctrl + click) it so the cursor becomes a "grid".
e. In the main GCL window, push Add to open the Add Chord window. Select a Root name and any other extensions as necessary. When the new chord is completed, Push the Add button.
Quick-select (Ctrl+click) on any existing chord symbol. Hit the "X" key. Begin clicking on any chord symbol (highlighted yellow) to delete them. To delete several fret symbols at once, use the Select tool, highlight as many fret symbols as you wish and hit the Delete key.
b. Proceed to edit chord symbol as described above. When finished, press OK in Frets window. Chord symbol is automatically updated.
NOTE: You can page through symbols using either the scroller or clicking through the "index" window in bottom right corner.
From the Scale window, change the size of fretboard symbol from +2 down to -6. All fretboard and/or chord symbols will re-size to this scale.
Export Library will save guitar chord library to a file. Choose the target directory and/or drive to save.
Import Library will load a saved guitar chord library from a directory and/or drive. Locate the .GCL file and push OK to load.
Instrument families are grouped with the use of brackets. Grand staff and braces are recognized whenever possible.
Use Bracketing to assign braces, grand staff brackets and to join selected parts into barline groups in an ENF document.
d. Continue to select parts for any other type of group. Any selected group can overlap parts of another selected group.
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