I am finishing a score which has an organ improvisation of indeterminate length in the middle. I know the first chord and the last, and I want to indicate the improv and the next conductor cue somewhere in the middle.
If I were using another engraving software of which we will not speak, I would put an opaque text box in the middle of a blank measure with the text “organ improv – go to F on conductor cue.”
What’s the best and easiest way to accomplish this?
David
Alternatively, can I break a music frame in the middle of a bar?
Yes you can – make sure your preference is set to allow breaks within bars, then input a frame break at the required position, and adjust frames as needed. If you need the same pattern of frames on multiple pages, create a custom page template (to save you making the same frame adjustments multiple times).
Lillie,
There it is; I knew I had seen John accomplish this somewhere.
Since you’ve been so helpful so far, here are some follow-up questions:
• I have two music frames now, sourced from one bar. How can I suppress the second frame’s instrument names, key signature, and left-hand barline?
• (How) can I propagate these formatting changes into the parts?
Many thanks!
Hide staff labels at the start of any system, see here: Hiding/Showing staff labels at system/frame breaks
Copy to parts: if you mean the page with separated music frames, the only way to do that is if you create this as a page template, which you can then import into the parts page template set and assign to whichever pages as needed.