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🎬 This article is a transcription of one of the excellent tutorial videos posted to the official Dorico YouTube channel.
Presented here in written form with the kind permission of its creator, Anthony Hughes, this tutorial is titled “How to Control Staff Spacing in Dorico”…
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Keyboard shortcuts can greatly increase your productivity in Sibelius. Shortcuts allow you to quickly invoke Plugins or other functions with a single keystroke. Keyboard Shortcuts are totally customizable in Sibelius.
Keyboard Shortcuts are located in Sibelius Preferences. Choose Preferences… from the Sibelius menu
or navigate to the File Tab and choose Preferences in the left pane:
You can also open the Preferences dialog directly using the pre-defined keyboard shortcut CMND-Comma (Mac) or CNTRL-Comma (Windows).
🎬 This article is a transcription of one of the excellent tutorial videos posted to the official Dorico YouTube channel.
Presented here in written form with the kind permission of its creator, Anthony Hughes, this tutorial is titled “What is Engrave Mode in Dorico?”…
Q: How can I assign a color to an individual barline? If I try, Sibelius tells me these objects can’t be colored.
A: While ordinary barlines can’t be colored, there is an easy way to do this; by first changing it into a special barline. Select the barline you want to color, then, in Sibelius 7 or later, locate the Barlines Group in the Common section of the Notations Tab.
If it is a “normal” barline, when you select Normal, it will remain visibly the same; however, making it a Special Barline will allow you to color it with the shortcut CNTRL-J Windows / CMND-J Mac.
Caution: prior to Sibelius v8.7.2, all Special Barlines split multirests in parts.
Karin Vadon is a classically trained musician, singer-songwriter and music copyist from Vienna, Austria who authors a german-language music notation blog for Sibelius and Dorico users.
🎬 This article is a transcription of one of the excellent tutorial videos posted to the official Dorico YouTube channel.
Presented here in written form with the kind permission of its creator, Anthony Hughes, this tutorial is titled “How to Work with Tuplets in Dorico”…
🎬 This article is a transcription of one of the excellent tutorial videos posted to the official Dorico YouTube channel.
Presented here in written form with the kind permission of its creator, Anthony Hughes, this tutorial is titled “How to Work with Slurs in Dorico”…
Q: Can I delete or hide the page numbers Sibelius creates by default?
A: Page numbers in Sibelius are a special type of Text Style which cannot be selected directly.
As such, they cannot be hidden or removed in the “normal” way, e.g. selected and deleted like other “System”text – for example, Tempo mark or a regular Header or Footer. (You might wish to hide page numbers when creating a worksheet, for example.)
They can easily be hidden, however. In Sibelius 7 and later, choose “Page Number Change” in the Numbering group of the Text tab and then select “Hide page numbers”:
In Sibelius 6, this dialog is found in Create > Other > Page Number Change.
Karin Vadon is a classically trained musician, singer-songwriter and music copyist from Vienna, Austria who authors a german-language music notation blog for Sibelius and Dorico users.