Is there a way to get the clarinet staff in a full score to display as “Clarinet in Bb” on the first page but “Bb Cl.” on subsequent pages? I suspect not, since Layout Options only gives me one option for “Position of instrument pitch in staff labels” and doesn’t break it out separately for full and abbreviated labels.
Edit: Oh, I guess I could accomplish it by editing the name of the instrument to make those labels explicit, and then setting “Show transposition” to “Never”. Is there anything more elegant that would work across instruments?
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There is actually an option on the Layout Options to show full on first and abbreviated on subsequent systems.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. My issue isn’t full vs. abbreviated – it’s having the transposition at the end of the label for the full name and at the start of the label for the abbreviated name: “Clarinet in Bb” vs “Bb Cl.”.
And in case anyone from Steinberg is reading this, please note that the Edit Instrument Names dialog refers to this as “transposition”, but the Layout Options dialog calls it “instrument pitch”. Since the first dialog explicitly refers to the second, I think they should use the same terminology.
Hi @asherber (I hope I don’t misunderstand your request),
If you mean, with “subsequent pages”, “subsequent systems”:
you could rename the Player, and then choose to show the Player name in Layout Options:
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Oh, I see. I misunderstood your question then. Off the top of my head I don’t think so, but maybe someone else can chip in here.
I can confirm that there’s no automatic way to have the transposition after the instrument name in full labels but before in short labels.
