Text menu

How to get there

Choose the Text tool .

What it does

The Text menu appears when the Text tool is selected for editing text blocks directly on-screen. It contains options for editing text fonts, sizes, styles, justification and so on, displaying the text as it will appear on the screen and on your printed music.

• Font: [Available Fonts]. Choose Font to display the Font dialog box, which lists all the fonts currently installed on your system. Select the font that you want to use. PrintMusic highlights your selection in the Font list. If you want, you can specify other font settings in the Font dialog box. For details see Font dialog box. All the fonts currently installed in your system appear in this submenu. Choose the font that you want to use from the Font submenu; a checkmark appears by the font currently selected. Hold down the shift key before choosing the Text menu to see the font names displayed in their respective fonts.
• Size:3 • … • 72 • Other • Increase • Decrease. Choose an option from the Size submenu for the font size for your text. PrintMusic places a check mark next to your selection. Choose Other to display the Size dialog box. Choose Increase or Decrease, or use the keyboard shortcuts COMMAND+SHIFT+. (period) and COMMAND+SHIFT+, (comma), to change the point size by one.
• Style: Plain • Bold • Italic • Underline. Choose a type style from the Style submenu. PrintMusic places a check mark next to your selection and applies the style to the selected text. Choose the command again to remove the check mark and the style. Choose Plain to remove the check mark from all other styles. You can choose any combination of styles (such as Bold—Underline, Italic—Bold, or a similar combination) from the submenu.
• Inserts. When you’re creating or editing a text block, choose a command from the Inserts submenu to insert one of these items at the current location of the cursor. PrintMusic pastes the current date, time, page number, or other insert at the insertion point. For more information, see Text Inserts.
• Justification: Left • Right • Center. Choose Left, Right, or Center from the Justification submenu to select how you want the text positioned in a frame. Choose Left or Right to place the text on the left or right edge of the frame, or choose Center to center the text between the left and right edges.
• Alignment: Left • Right • Center Horizontally. Choose Left, Right, or Center Horizontally from the Alignment submenu to select how you want the text block positioned on the page. Choose Left or Right to place the text on the left or right edge of the page, or choose Center Horizontally to center the text on the page. Checkmarks appear by the Alignment settings currently in use for the text block. When you change the horizontal or vertical Alignment of the text block, PrintMusic clears any manual positioning done in the score.

  To set the default Alignment of page-assigned text blocks, choose a different Alignment from the Alignment submenu when you’re in Page View with no text blocks selected.

• Word Wrap. Deselect this option to disable word wrapping in text blocks.
• Attach New Text to Measure • Attach New Text to Page. These items allow you to specify whether PrintMusic will create a text block that is attached to a particular measure or attached to a particular page. Note that these commands only affect future text blocks and are only available in Page View. Text blocks created in Scroll View are always measure-assigned.

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