Text toolbar not visible

• Jun 26, 2017 - 07:11

I cannot find the Text toolbar anymore. I am doing a guitar half bar and need 1/2 III indication. I have done it before using this toolbar but cannot find it in the Toolbars menu to check on.
Is it somewhere else?
Thanks


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Sorry, I found it. I was expecting it to appear when I edited the III, but I must have just used system text and aligned it.
Is there going to be an improvement so it could be inserted directly?

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

"I am doing a guitar half bar and need 1/2 III indication." [...]
I was expecting it to appear when I edited the III, but I must have just used system text and aligned it."

No sure why you want use the text toolbar and align the text? It's unuseful by doing this:

1) Select the note where begins the barré
2) In "Lines" palette -> double-click on the text line: VII-----|
3) Right-click on this line -> Line properties -> Change in "Begin/Text" the VII default for ½ III, eg, or, more common, ½CIII, or ½BIII -> Ok
That's all.
Sans titre 1.jpg
If you have already a customized palette, you can add it to avoid to re-create this line each time.

NB: "bar", I guess it's for the user a diminutive for "barré".
See Barré paragraph (grand barré vs. half barré) p.376 in Behind Bars/Gould

Thank you everyone, sorry yes I meant barre.
The problem was, although I can put in 1/2III or whatever, the 1/2 comes out very large, whereas if I use the text toolbar and system text, I get a small 1/2. How do you choose it to be small without using system text?
Thanks again.

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