Measure Numbers
I want to box some of my measure numbers, but when I put a frame around it is curved. I just want a thin square box. Is there a way to accomplish this?
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What do you mean by "putting a frame around it"? Do you mean you enabled frames by right-clicking the particular measure number you want boxed and clicking text properties to enable frames? If so, all you have to do is set the radius to 0. If this isn't what you were doing, try this method.
For an example, in a measure-number's text properties, check Frame and select the Box radio button with something like the following
Border radius: 0
Border thickness: 0.10sp
Text margin: 0.50sp
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You said you want SOME of the numbers to have the square. If you enter a rehearsal mark (ctrl-m) and enter the measure number after measure 1, all subsequent rehearsal marks entered from either the menu or palette will match the measure number. You can then follow worldweary's advise for formatting them. ctrl-m always requires a manual number.
In reply to You said you want SOME of the by mike320
Interesting that rehearsal marks understand measure numbering and follow suit. If you do this, the only catch is that you'd probably want to make invisible the standard measure numbers that were also given rehearsal marks, and you might want to change the fonts to conform to each other for uniformity.
Actually, a faster way might be to make a new style based on the "measure number" style, especially if you're going to be doing this in many scores. Style→Text→ click Measure Number (so that font/spacing is based this), then press the New button on the bottom, name it something like "Squared Measure Number", then change the frame settings in this new style (radius=0, etc.). Now, from then on you can click a measure number and in the Inspector open the Style list; at the bottom of the list select "Squared Measure Number" or whatever you called it for each one you want that way, and that's all you'd have to do.
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