- Click the Measure tool
and select Edit
Regions from the Measure Numbers submenu of the Measure menu. The
Measure Number dialog box appears. If there is no measure number region
click Add.
- Enter the Measures to include for this region.
The Include Measure and Through text boxes are the actual measures in
the piece; they have nothing to do with what you’re going to call them.
For example, if the piece begins with a pickup measure, you’ll probably
want what is actually measure 2 to be numbered as measure 1; if so, type
2 into the first text box. If you simply want to number every measure
sequentially (a single region), type 1 into the first text box and 1000
(or any number larger than your actual measure count) in the second text
box. If you want to define a region to number only part of the piece,
the End Measure is the last measure to be numbered.
- Enter the number you want to start your region
numbering with in the First Measure in Region text box. If you
want to use letters, type in a number corresponding to its place in the
alphabet.
- Select the style of measure numbers (numeric,
alphabetic, etc.) from the Style drop-down
list menu.
- Click Set Font to choose a font and style for
this region. Click OK (or press ENTER).
- Click Position. The Position Measure
Number dialog box appears, displaying a symbolic measure number.
- Drag anywhere in the graphic box to position
the measure number relative to the measure. Click OK (or press ENTER). You return to the Measure Number
dialog box, where you can make various other settings.
- Specify the incidence of the numbers.
If you click Show Measure Number at Start of Each System, a measure number
will only appear at the beginning of a new system. If you click Show every
__ Measures beginning with __, you can specify how often a number appears
and where it should start from. Multiple of 1 would number every measure
in the region.
- If you want each measure number to be prefixed,
enter the Prefix number or letter. If you entered the letter A
in the Prefix text box for a region with numbered measures, for example,
you’d create a sequence of measures labeled A15, A16, A17, and so on.
On the other hand, if you entered the number 21 in the Prefix text box
for a region with lettered measures, you’d create a sequence of measures
labeled 21a, 21b, 21c, and so on.
- If you want an enclosure around each measure
number, select an enclosure from the drop-down
list menu. If you don’t see one you like,
click Edit Enclosure and the Enclosure Designer dialog box appears. See
Enclosure Designer dialog
box.
If you want every measure number in the
region to be enclosed, select Show Enclosure on Every Number. If you click
Show Enclosure on Selected Numbers, no measure numbers will be enclosed
when you first return to the document; to add the enclosure you specified
to a particular measure number, simply double-click the number’s handle
and click Use Enclosure.
- If you want a range of measure numbers on multimeasure
rests select Show Measure Number Ranges on Multimeasure Rests.
If you want the range to always appear, also select Always Show on Multimeasure
Rests. If you want a bracket around the range, enter the bracket in the
Left and Right boxes.
- If you don’t want the measure numbers to begin
with 1, enter a number in the First Measure in Region text box.
See Measure Number dialog box
for more information.
- To set up the parameters for another region,
click Add. To remove a region, click Delete.
- Click OK (or press ENTER).
The numbers appear in every measure in every staff. Each number has a
handle.
