MScore Font in MS Word
Hello to all. I am currently trying to write music in Microsoft Office Word 2010.
The reason for which this is related to Musescore is simply that I know that Musescore uses the font MScore to export scores to PDF documents. This being said, when I copy a musical character from a PDF I've created using Musescore and paste it into Microsoft Office Word 2010, only a square symbolizing a missing character appears, and the font selection section states "MScore", which is an unrecognised font in Office 2010.
Should anyone know where one may find the MScore font file, which could be imported into the Windows 10 fonts system folder?
Many thanks in advance;
G-Power
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For anyone having the same question, I managed to find a way out of it. Download the MScore font file from here: https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/blob/master/fonts/mscore/mscore…
Once downloaded, double-click on it and a new font system window will appear. Click "Install" in the top left corner, and that's it.
Regards;
G-Power
In reply to For anyone having the same… by G-Power
FWIW, the MScore (Emmentaler) font itself wasn't designed for this, and things won't really size or align meaningfully. The Emmentaler Text (MScore1?) font might be more appropriate, the Bravura Text font probably better still.
In reply to FWIW, the MScore (Emmentaler… by Marc Sabatella
Hello. Thank you for your response. Indeed, the font did not work in Word, finally. Where could I find the Emmentaler font, please? Should it be on GitHub as well?
Many thanks;
G-Power
In reply to Hello. Thank you for your… by G-Power
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/blob/master/fonts/mscore/MScoreT…
And
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/blob/master/fonts/bravura/Bravur…
In reply to Hello. Thank you for your… by G-Power
I think you misunderstand - Emmentaler *is MScore. Now sure what you mean by "didn't work - assumign you add the right glyphs, it should display just fine, but as I said, it won't size and position meaningfully. So you really want Emmentaler Text, or probably better, Bravura Text, which was "sort of" designed to be used like this. Sort of, in that I don't know your actual goal here or why you might want to create music in a way that even if it succeeds is likely to be 100 times harder than just using notation software and pasting the images into the word processor.
In reply to I think you misunderstand -… by Marc Sabatella
Yes, they don't align. I don't need to describe my problem; you know everything. ;)
Indeed, Bravura Text is way closer to what I'm looking for. The symbols are all displayed completely... Except for the notes with stems, since the stem and note are two different characters. Are there any symbols with complete notes?
And also, I can guess you're probably trying to understand what I am tempting to do with all this. I'm trying to do a music tutorial for my cadet corps, as a text document. I know that I can add text boxes in Musescore, but I'm looking for a more enhanced way to do this, since Musescore is meant for score writing, and not general document writing.
In reply to Yes, they don't align. I don… by G-Power
I absolutely guarantee that creating the music in MuseScore, then capturing images with the Image Capture tool (camera icon on toolbar) and pasting into your word processor is going to be 100 times easier than what you are attempting. Maybe 1000 times. Seriously. I do this all the time, it's simple and works very well.
But for the record, yes, there are precomposed notes (head+stem++hook, etc) in Bravura Text.
In reply to I absolutely guarantee that… by Marc Sabatella
I get you. But just because I am pigheaded as I am, I just want to give it a try. ;)
It's because I want the notes and the symbols, but not the staff. This means that I have to export the "invisible-staffed" score to PDF and then snip it into Word every time.
Do you know how I can access these complete characters, please? Should it be from the master palette?
Thank you so much;
G-Power
In reply to I get you. But just because… by G-Power
And I get being pigheaded and wanting to see what's possible, so by all means, knock yourself out. I'm sure whow you are finding the characters you are already using, but I assume you can find the precomposed notes the same way - they are all just characters in the font, none more special than others. If Word has a "master palette" and that's what you've been using so far, then it should still work. Otherwise, you need to enter the glyphs by their codepoint number - look up SMuFL to find a full list of standard music font codepoints.
But, nothing about what you're describing should make the image capture less useful. if you're making the staff lines invisible already via Staff Propeties, then that's exactly what the Image Capture tool captures. And there are niceties like an automatic size of the region to the visible area of the page, also a "copy with link" feature to include a link back to the score so you can edit your example just by clicking it in your Word processor (no idea if your version of Word supports that, but LibreOffice does). Either way, it's one click to get the image from. MuseScore, one click to paste it into Word. No PDF involved we're talkign straight copy and paste form MuseScore to Word
In reply to And I get being pigheaded… by Marc Sabatella
Oh, okay. I was using the actual Windows 10 snipping tool, which captured the greyed-out lines from the "invisible" staff as well, but I need to use the Musescore built-in snipping tool. You just saved my life.
I'll be saving so much time. Sorry for my slow sense of comprehension. I was missing the essential.
You're a genius.
Thank you.
G-Power
In reply to Oh, okay. I was using the… by G-Power
You’re welcome :-).
For the record, though, an external tool would work too if you turned off display of invisible elements in the View menu. But, quality still won’t be as good because it is working from a screen rendering not the actual internal representation that would be used in printing.
Also, it’s not clear why you are working with invisible staves, but if the goal is just to show individual symbols that don’t are not supposed to be understood as music, then working from the font directly might give you more flexibility. Although still I’d probably rather place symbols in MuseScore then do the image capture.
In reply to You’re welcome :-). For the… by Marc Sabatella
Indeed I am more comfortable using the font when inserting single symbols in phrases (as in the example below):
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But the snipping tool is very useful for inserting actual music parts or tied notes, and I had noticed that the quality is way bigger when using the internal tool, which is a big two thumbs up.
Many thanks for all the support.
Regards;
G-Power