using styles or templates

• Dec 29, 2020 - 09:50

hello,

How can I import files into a template? Or how can I change an existing file to the specifics of a template?

thank you!
Annemiek


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In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

When I load a Style in an existing file, it does not take over all the specific lay-out details.
Is this how I do it:
1) open an existing file
2) in Preferences under Score/Style/ search for my .mms
3) load the Style

I am new to MuseScore after working with LogicPro... so I have to understand the basics: in Logic I could OR import specifics from other files into a file, OR import an .MXL-file into a template

thank you!
Annemiek

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

(I’ll stick to 3 for quite a while. 4 seems to be forcing the use of binary-only and/or download-only content and phone-home software.)

Thanks! I guessed the former two… the title frame setup how specifically? /usr/share/mscore3-3.2/templates/02-Choral/03-SATB_+_Piano.mscx only has a VBox with a dummy text of style Title in it, the others are filled in from the input mask normally.

In reply to by mirabilos

No,. there is no binary-only content forced in MuseScore 4 - that's only if you opt to use Muse Sounds. The basic application remains completely open source.

Regarding the title frame - if you create a title frame of a particular size in a template, that size gets honored in scores created from it. So between that and custom styles settings for the positions of title/subtitle/composer/etc, plus the fact that header & footer are style settings and thus also used, the template can produce a nice consistent look to your "front matter".

In reply to by AndreasKågedal

If the template actually contains pre-generated parts, I think its styles will be used. Feel free to test by creating such a template and reporting back! The pre-defined templates don't included pre-generated parts as it is not really recommended.

In the usual case, the new score won't have parts yet, and at the moment of part creation, the style settings are copied from score to parts, with a few exceptions:

  • page settings from the score are ignored; the parts will have default page & staff size
  • concert pitch is turned off even if it was on in the score
  • multimeasures rests are turned on
  • if you've defined a style for parts in Edit / Preferences / Score, that is used instead

There might be one or two other settings that default to something different than the score based on some of the relatively new features added in 3.5, 3.6, or 4.0.

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

I actually did try. It did not work. The "Edit/Preferences/Score/Style for parts" is probably the best way. But it assumes you are only using one type of style. If you write big band scores and scores for baroque recorder quartets you probably will not want to use the same style for the parts.

What I did to test if styles set in parts are preserved in templates:

  1. create a new score based on the Big Band template
  2. add some notes to the alto sax 1 instrument
  3. generate all parts
  4. add some staff text to the alto sax 1 part and change the size to 20 and press the "set as style" button.
  5. add another staff text to verify that it appears as 20pt size. Works fine.
    1. As a side note, checking back in the main score, where the style size for staff text is 10pt, surprisingly, the newly added text gets size 20pt also there. Same thing happens if new staff text is added to alto sax 1 in the main score, it gets size 10pt in both the part and score. I am not convinced this is the desired behavior. But this is a separate issue and not the one I was intending to test.
  6. Saving the new score as a new template in the Templates folder (with the parts still generated).
  7. Create a new score based on the new template. All the parts appear from the start
  8. go to the alto sax 1 part and add some staff text. It is added with size 10pt (not 20 as is the style in the template file, see step 4 above)

In reply to by mirabilos

Oh yeah, system dividers, that's one of those relatively recent things I had forgotten about. Indeed, for most parts, they don't make sense, but they could if your "part" is really several parts combined.

BTW, though - no need to visit each part one by one to force a given style to apply to them all. Load the style for one, then go to Format / Style and click the "Apply to all Parts" button.

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