No styles, templates, etc. in MuseScore folder
In the MuseScore folder in Documents (Mac OS), there are no styles or templates, etc. I had the impression that the application came with some preloaded style and template options ... not the case?
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That is proably your personal folder for these things (and for you to populate), as opposed to the system wide one, which does contain somestyles and templates that come as part of the package
In reply to That is proably your personal by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks. But where is the folder that contains the styles and templates that come as part of the package?
In reply to Thanks. But where is the by frednow
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/create-new-score-0#system-template-fo…, so it should be in /Applications/MuseScore 2.app/Contents/Resources/
In reply to See by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks again, but in my Applications folder is just the MuseScore2 application itself, not a folder that has Contents/Resources ... the only MuseScore folder resides in Documents, and has Images, Plugins, Scores, Soundfonts, Styles, and Templates, all of which are empty except for Scores, which obviously has scores I've created.
Did I somehow download an incomplete package?
In reply to Thanks again, but in my by frednow
Possible, but I don't know nothing about Macs and therir packaging
In reply to Thanks again, but in my by frednow
@frednow: The Contents/Resources folders are *inside* the MuseScore2 application in the Applications folder.
See http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/peek-inside-mac-os-x-packages.p…
In reply to @frednow: The by shoogle
And you probably don't want to mess with files in this directory except you know exactly what you are doing.
In reply to Thanks. But where is the by frednow
You will see the templates that come with the program every time you try to create a new score - no need to go digging around to try to find the folder manually. Same with styles, etc. The pre-installed files show automatically when you try to use a template, style, soundfont, etc.
In reply to You will see the templates by Marc Sabatella
Thanks, Marc. From your reply, what I discovered is that in order to access the preloaded styles and templates, I need to choose "New ... " from the File menu. The option to "Load Style" from the Style menu is strictly for styles I create myself ... do I have this right?
In reply to Thanks, Marc. From your by frednow
Well, styles are styles, templates are templates - two different things. When you go to File / New, or open the Start Center, you will see all available templates - both the preinstalled ones and ones you created yourself and saved to your own Templates folder. For styles, there really are no preinstalled ones of substance. You probably can browse to the preinstalled styles folder from the Load Style dialog and find the MuseJazz.mss file that is, as far as I know, still shipped, but that's about it.
In reply to Well, styles are styles, by Marc Sabatella
Yes, but you see, that's my original question ... when I go to Load Style there's absolutely nothing there, nor is there anything in the Styles folder when I access from the Finder.
Further, I'm confused when you say "there really are no preinstalled ones of substance" and then follow that with " You probably can browse to the preinstalled styles folder from the Load Style dialog" ... are there preinstalled styles or not? Can they, or should they, be found in Load Styles or not?
There is no MuseJazz.mss file anywhere on my Mac.
In reply to Yes, but you see, that's my by frednow
It's within "MuseScore 2.app"—right-click it and choose "Show package contents". Then it's Contents/Resources/styles.
In reply to It's within "MuseScore by Isaac Weiss
Thanks, Zack; that did the trick. So, none of those can be accessed under the Style menu/Load Style dialog?
In reply to Thanks, Zack; that did the by frednow
Oh, I see your point. That is difficult. Two ideas come to mind: you could copy files from within the app bundle to a more easily accessed location, or you could drag the folder to your Finder sidebar.
In reply to Yes, but you see, that's my by frednow
In 2.0.2 there is exactly one preinstalled style: MuseJazz.mss, which simply sets various text styles to MuseJazz. And probably misses a few; it most likely hasn't been updated very recently. So it's really not rpworth the trobule of finding it. If you expect to want to load a style that sets text styles to MuseJazz, just create one yourself, by creating a score from the Jazz Lead Sheet template than going to Style / Save Style.
In reply to In 2.0.2 there is exactly one by Marc Sabatella
Should that style file be included at all, then? Or should perhaps more styles be included?
In reply to Should that style file be by Isaac Weiss
Good questions. If they are hard to access on Mac, I guess not much point in adding more unless we address that.
In reply to Good questions. If they are by Marc Sabatella
I guess on mac we should copy them to user space... on first start
In reply to I guess on mac we should copy by [DELETED] 5
and in General add a few more. For example one for the Defaults, so you can restore without a factory reset, and another for Modified Stave Notation
In reply to and in General add a few by Jojo-Schmitz
Good suggestions. Regarding the MuseJazz.mss styl, I think we really need is a single command to allow you to specify a font and have it automatically get plugged in to all relevant styles. Perhaps it would work as a substitution - "replace all instances of Free Serif with MuseJazz" or something like that.