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06/09/2010 - SIBELIUS 6.2 - WIKI software updated - Announcements
Fonts for dynamics not following imported house styles
When you import a house style, the 'Music text font' field in House Style > Edit All Fonts isn't changed. So go there and change it to the font you expect.
Creating custom ensembles to use in new or preexisting scores
Create a custom ensemble
- House style > edit instruments
- New ensemble…
- Choose options…rename instruments…etc until ensemble is how you want it
- House style > Export house style (for use to import it into scores that need that instrumentation)
Use a custom ensemble in a new or existing score
- House style > Import house style (the one with the custom ensemble)
- Create>Instruments…
- Click on “Choose from:” then click on the custom ensemble name
- Under “Instrument:” click on the top instrument and the shift click on the bottom instrument to choose all the instruments in the custom ensemble
- Choose “add to score” button
- Reorder the instruments as needed under “staves in score” and hit OK button
Switching from a traditional House Style to one based on the InkPen2 font
- Sometimes a few of the fonts are not converted properly, such as the dynamics which may stay in Opus font.
- The correct settings can be set in House Style >Edit All Fonts…
- The following setting will give the desired output for InkPen2
- The following setting will give the desired output for Rich Sigler's Jazz Font
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