Part names and abbreviations – PreSonus Notion 6 - Notation Software (Boxed) User Manual

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To help you quickly find a particular part in a system, each staff identifies its instrument with the

instrument’s name or abbreviation . With the setting below you can control how staves identify

their instruments in the score area in Pages Across or Pages Down page view .

1 . Go to the Menu bar and select Score > Full Score Options .

» The Options dialog box opens .

2 . In the First system titles drop-down list you decide how you want the first system at the beginning of your score to

identify instruments . The options are None, Part name, and Part abbreviation .

None:

Part name:

Part abbreviation:

3 . In Following system titles you specify how you want to identify instruments throughout the remainder of your

score, at the start of each system . The same three options (None, Part name, and Part abbreviation) appear in this

drop-down list .

4 . When finished, click OK .

» The change is immediate .

You have just set up how Notion will handle all part names and abbreviations as a group . To customize

individual texts for instruments, see Change Part Names and Abbreviations in Chapter 11 .

Part Names and Abbreviations

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