Changing staff text to system text??

• Nov 19, 2020 - 05:07

I just realized I set in my full score all text intended as system text as staff text with "system" style, rather than true system text, for which reason I understand said text is not appearing in extracted parts (other than the first). Is there any way to select staff text (in the style of system text) and change/"flag" it to true system text, or do I have to re-enter everything as system text?

Comments

mike320

• Nov 19, 2020 - 05:50

Marc Sabatella

• Nov 27, 2020 - 05:09

You can't do it in MuseScore, but if you save as MSCX and open the resulting file in a text editor, you could do a search and replace, perhaps. But it might require something more complex than a simple search string, more like a regular expression. so it might require a tool like sed or perl and something resembling programming. Or, you could just go through the file and make the change manually, probably easier unless there are like thousands of them.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Nov 27, 2020 - 07:42

This is how it looks in an mscx:

          <StaffText>
            <text>This is Staff Text</text>
            </StaffText>

vs.

          <SystemText>
            <text>This is System Text</text>
            </SystemText>

So simply replacing StaffText with SystemText should do

Jeronome

• Apr 5, 2022 - 17:03

Hi,
I've tried this and it seems to work, "staff text" now appears like "system text" in the main score. But the "system texts" that have been modified don't appear in the parts. Is there a (simple) way to do it?

Jojo-Schmitz

• Apr 5, 2022 - 17:10

Not if the part exists already, the link between score and part won't get automagically retrofitted

Jeronome

• Apr 6, 2022 - 08:56

Always impressed by the speed of the response!
It works well when creating a new part though.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Apr 6, 2022 - 18:12

Yes

Marc Sabatella

• Apr 6, 2022 - 16:27

Now I'm wondering, maybe a plugin could do the job? Probably not by converting existing text, but by deleting it and recreating it as system text. That would get parts right too, and be much simpler.

elsewhere

• Apr 6, 2022 - 17:59

In https://musescore.org/en/node/302054 I posted a plugin that converts staff text to harmony. Should be (?!) easily adaptable to system text.

lewisk

• Nov 27, 2020 - 14:50

Thank you for the responses. After receiving Mike320's initial response a week ago, I just went through and copied/pasted staff text to system text (took time given the size of the piece). Using a text editor to find/replace "staff text" to "system text" sounds simple enough - though it would have taken time also, since not all the staff text was intended as system text.. so I'd have had to scroll through the text document finding/replacing only the text I'd entered as "system style" - not sure how easy/quick that would have been.