Importing text styles from other projects, Working with global text – Apple Logic Express 8 User Manual

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Chapter 33

Working With Notation

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Importing Text Styles From Other Projects

You can add text styles created in another project to the current project.

To import text styles from another project:

1

Choose File > Project Settings > Import Settings.

2

Click the Text Styles checkbox at the bottom of the Import Settings window. Uncheck
all other settings types, if you don’t wish to import them.

3

Browse to the project that contains the text styles you want to import.

4

Click Open, and all user text styles from the selected project will be added to the
current project.

Working With Global Text

Global text objects appear in all score sets of a project (score, parts, and so on),
although they are inserted just once.

Score sets determine which instrument tracks are included in the score display. Each
project can contain as many score sets as required. Full details on score sets can be
found in “

Using Score Sets to Create Scores and Parts

” on page 796.

The position of global text does not relate to bar positions (unlike regular text objects),
but is defined as a graphic position on the page. Given this behavior, global text can
only be inserted and seen in Page view. The most obvious example of a global text
object is a song name (in the page header).

To create global text:

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Insert text into one of the following areas of the page:

 In the header space (which is set in Layout > Global Format).

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