Which brings us to the second topic for this article. (The above settings can all be saved and loaded as a House Style). In all recent versions of Sibelius, the thickness of the enclosure is set in Engraving Rules > Text > Text Borders Sibelius 6 : House Style > Edit Text Styles > Rehearsal Marks > Edit > Border > Position Sibelius 7 and later : Text Tab > Styles Group > Edit Text Styles > Rehearsal Marks > Edit > Border > Size You can control the size of the enclosure here: The exact amount of space needed will depend on the size of the Rehearsal Mark enclosure. If you want tempo text to align with the bottom of the Rehearsal Mark enclosure, you will need to set the rehearsal mark’s vertical position slightly higher, globally. If there are no other considerations, they’ll line up perfectly. If you want the default behavior of alignment of the Text Style’s baselines, set Vertical Position Relative to Staff identically for all three text styles. Now, do the same for Tempo (and Metronome mark) text. Once in the Default Positions dialog, select the Rehearsal Marks text Style and note its Vertical Position Relative to Staff setting. (In Sibelius 6, select “Default Positions” from the House Style menu.) You can get to the specific settings by navigating to the Appearance Tab in Sibelius 7 and later, and selecting the Default Positions button in the Design and Position Group. The Sibelius templates are typically set to align the text baselines.
If the tempo text jumps above the rehearsal mark, nudge it only to the right until it drops back into its default vertical position. In Sibelius, selecting any text object and typing COMMAND-SHIFT-P (Mac) or CONTROL-SHIFT-P (Windows) will reset its position. While Sibelius doesn’t offer this one-step alignment capability, it is straightforward to align these two different Text objects globally either with the bottom of the rehearsal mark enclosure, or with the text baseline.īefore you get too far into this, first make sure your tempo marks and rehearsal marks haven’t been moved from their default vertical positions. The new notation program Dorico has a nice feature within its Engraving Options that recognizes there are a couple of different “standards” for alignment of other items vertically with rehearsal marks, and matches either prevalent style with a single setting: The first relates to general settings and positioning, and the second, as it concerns Sibelius, relates to collision avoidance. By default, Sibelius aligns the tempo text with the bottom of the enclosure, but I want the tempo text to be centered with the whole height of the boxed rehearsal mark.Ī: You’ve touched on two interesting topics related to vertical text alignment here. Q: In Sibelius, is it possible to have boxed Rehearsal marks which are automatically vertically aligned with coincident changes of tempo? For example, I have entered the boxed rehearsal letter “A” followed by a tempo marking “a tempo”.
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