Dear fellow Doricians,
I’ve been trying to use that feature to put the text along with the music, and it works quite well. Here’s an example :
Awesome !!
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Hello Marc,
this looks very good in the score.
May I ask, how the part layouts handle this?
(I am new to cutaway).
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I’m not at my computer, but I would think that you wouldn’t see the cutaway in the parts, since you can’t use cutaways in layouts that use multi bar rests.
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Also, if you try to alter the default brackets, I believe this will no longer be possible.
This is a really neat idea. I did a score last year that needed something similar, and I did it with text frames with an opaque background in the score layout. It works fine, except of course that the frames are tied to pages (and cause page overrides), so that if something changed in the casting off, I might have to move the frame to a different page. The nice thing here is that even though I may still need to adjust the position of the text, at least it will stay with the appropriate measure.
Excuse-me, I don’t understand what you mean… I’m not sure about the relationship between the brackets and the cutaway features, but I don’t think it’s relevant. I might be wrong, of course, since I didn’t need to change that aspect of the file. I had finished that score two or three years ago and decided to add the spoke text to it this morning… And my initial thought was not using this technique at all! But it seemed more appropriate for this piece than what I had in mind (slicing it into flows and use custom flow headings).
It’s been quite a long process, probably because I don’t master the cutaway features, but the result is perfectly acceptable.
No cutaways in the parts, and the text is locally hidden in the parts (I don’t think it’s really useful to put it there).
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I mean that if you use cutaways and later find you need to edit a bracket you will be out of luck.
This bug bit me recently when engraving a particularly complicated score and I couldn’t understand why I could no longer edit any brackets. After searching this forum I came across a message from someone at Steinberg (maybe Daniel) who acknowledged this limitation.
I’m just trying to save someone from the frustration this caused to me. Sorry if it seemed offensive to you.
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This is only partially true:
to be able to change the brackets when using cutaways (both automatic/global or manual/local ones), you need to set the Cutaway’s Engraving Option Preamble to Starts of systems with cutaways: With brackets and solid systemic barline:
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You are right. I stand corrected.
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Hi! It did not seem offensive at all! But I don’t know exactly what you were talking about, so I could not honestly develop on it. I’m sorry that you understood there was a problem in my answer!
I’ve just read Christian’s post and actually it answers one of my interrogations about having those cutaways at the start of the system, so I thank you for rising this problem 
[Edit] I’ve been revising the document, turning off the automatic cutaways, and setting a shortcut to Manual cutaway. It makes the whole process way faster and cleaner. Whaow!
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