[sib-access] Re: keystroke shortcuts
- From: "Dave" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "dgcarlson" for DMARC)
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- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 08:16:27 -0800
Michael,
Here's Section 1.6 from the actual Sibelius reference manual, converted to
text. There's a lot of good information here, and much of it uses all the
keyboard combinations that are built into Sibelius. they are not specific to
JAWS or the Sib scripts.
1.6 Selections
When objects in the score are selected, they go colored, which shows that
you can do things to
them using the mouse and keyboard. Most operations in Sibelius involve
selections.
There are three main kinds of selection:
* a single selection, where just one object is selected
* a multiple selection, where several separate objects are selected
* a selected passage, where a continuous stretch of music is selected, shown
with a light blue box
("staff passage") or purple double-box ("system passage") round it.
You can do pretty much the same things to all three kinds of selection. The
main difference is how
you select the objects in the first place.
Additionally, you can select a rectangle of music in order to export it as
graphics - see 8.11 Exporting graphics.
Selection colors
When an object is selected, it changes color to show that it's selected:
* Notes and staff-attached text and lines are colored according to the
voice(s) to which they
belong (voice 1 is dark blue, voice 2 is green, voice 3 is orange, and voice
4 is pink). If an object
belongs to more than one voice, or all voices, it is colored light blue.
* Various other staff objects, e.g. symbols, clefs, instrument changes,
etc., apply to all voices and
so are also colored light blue.
* System objects (e.g. system text, lines and symbols, time signatures, key
signatures, etc.) are
colored purple when selected.
Single selections
To make a single selection, click an object - it's as simple as that.
* You can also select an object without using the mouse - with nothing
selected, hit Tab to select
the first object on the top staff on the page
* You can select the next object on the staff using the arrow keys or Tab
(to select the previous
item, type Shift-Tab)
* If you want to select a particular notehead in a chord, use Alt+Up/Down to
select the next
notehead above or below the currently selected one
* If there are no chords, Alt+Up/Down selects the note at the nearest
rhythmic position on
the staff above or below
* You can also move between the different parts of lines using
Alt+Left/Rightft/Right - see 2.16 Lines and see 2.22 Slurs.
* Another way of making a single selection is to use the Edit > Find
(shortcut Ctrl+F) feature - see5.4 Filters and Find.
If you have trouble selecting an object with the mouse, because there's
another object very close
that you keep selecting instead: first, hit Tab (or Shift-Tab) to move the
selection to the object
you want to select,m in very close and try selecting it again; if this
fails, move the other
object out of the way temporarily.
Multiple selections
* Click an object, then Ctrl+click one or more other objects to add them to
the selection. Ctrl+click an
object again if you want to remove it
from the selection.
* Alternatively, Shift-click on the paper and drag the light gray box around
the objects
you want to select (sometimes called a "marquee" or "lasso" selection). If
you drag across a
whole staff, you'll get a selected passage instead. You can then add/remove
objects from the
selection using Ctrl+click. If you use this function a lot, changing the
Drag Paper
setting in the File > Preferences > General dialog (in the Sibelius menu on
Mac OS X) allows
you to select a passage simply by clicking and dragging (without holding
down Shift).
* With multiple text selections, you can also extend a single selection by
choosing Edit > Select >
Select More (type Ctrl+Shift+A), which selects all similar text objects
(i.e. in the
same style) attached to the same staff within that system. This is a quick
way of selecting a
whole row of, say, chord symbols, lyrics, fingerings or expression marks.
* If you have a single note of a chord selected, Edit > Select > Select More
selects all the notes in
that chord; similarly, if you have a single note, rest or a whole chord
selected, Edit > Select >
Select More will select the whole bar.
* You can also use filters to make a multiple selection - see5.4 Filters and
Find.
Multiple selections are mainly useful for objects other than notes, chords
and rests - e.g. to delete
several articulations or bits of text.
Selected passages
A "passage" is a continuous stretch of music - of any length from a couple
of notes to the whole
score, and for any number of staves from one to a complete orchestra. You
can think of it as a
"rectangle" of music - though this rectangle can run between systems and
pages, and you can
even include non-adjacent staves in a passage.
In contrast to multiple selections, selected passages are mainly useful for
doing things to several
notes, chords and rests.
There are two kinds of passages: normally, passages are surrounded by a
single light blue box and
can include any combination of staves in your score; system passages, by
contrast, are surrounded
by a purple double-box and include all the staves in your score.
To select a passage by clicking:
* Click the note/chord/rest at one corner (e.g. the top left-hand corner) of
the "rectangle" you
want to select. If you're selecting from the start of a bar, it's quicker
just to click an empty part of
the bar.
* Shift-click the note/chord/rest at the opposite (e.g. bottom right-hand
corner) of the "rectangle." Again, if you're selecting to
the end of a bar, just click an empty
part of the bar.
* All selected objects will go colored and a light blue box will appear
around the selection. The
selection will also appear on the Navigator, which is useful for viewing
passages that span multiple pages.
* To add further staves to the selection, hold down Ctrl and click further
staves; this can be
used to add non-adjacent staves to the selection
* You can also exclude certain staves from a passage selection by holding
down Ctrl and
clicking in turn on the staves you want to remove from the selection.
You can also make a passage selection using the Edit > Select > Select Bars
dialog (shortcut
Ctrl+Alt+A). This is useful if you know you want to select, say, the first
16 bars of a
score, or want to select from the current position to the end of the score.
The Make system
selection option will make the resulting passage selection into a system
passage.
To select a system passage, do the same but start by Ctrl+clicking a blank
part of a
bar, then hold Ctrl as you click on other notes/chords/rests in other staves
to extend the passage.
Naturally, you can also select a passage using just the keyboard:
* With a note selected, type Shift-Left/Right to extend the selection
horizontally a note at a time, or
Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to extend it a bar at a time. This is similar to word
processors (as
are various other uses of the arrow keys).
* To select multiple staves, type Shift-Up/Down to include another staff in
the passage
* To turn the current selection into a system passage, choose Edit > Select
Select System Passage
(shortcut Shift+Alt+A).
To select a passage by dragging the mouse: hold down Shift and drag out a
rectangle starting
from above the top staff at the start of the desired passage and finishing
below the bottom staff at
the end. This is only practical for short passages.
Quick cases
There are various ways to select certain types of passage quickly:
* Clicking an empty part of a bar selects that bar on one staff (e.g. to
copy a bar)
* Double-clicking an empty part of a bar selects that staff for the duration
of the system (e.g. to
copy those bars)
* Triple-clicking an empty part of a bar selects that staff throughout the
score (e.g. to delete a
whole instrument)
* After single-, double- or triple-clicking, you can Shift-click another
staff to add all staves in
between to the selection, or (as before) add or remove individual staves
using Ctrl+click
* If you hold Ctrl while single-, double- or triple-clicking initially, a
system passage is
selected (enclosed in a purple double-box)
* You can even select the entire score at once by choosing Edit > Select >
Select All (shortcut
Ctrl+A). This is particularly useful for transposing the whole score,
altering the format
of the whole score, or for selecting particular types of object throughout
the score (see below).
(If you think hard about it, Edit > Select > Select All does the same as
Ctrl+triple-click. See?)
What can you do with multiple selections and selected passages?
You can do virtually anything to a multiple selection or selected passage
that you can do to a single note, and more; for
example:
* Copy it elsewhere with Alt+click - very, very handy for arranging or
orchestrating.
(Copying overwrites unless you select a passage of bars with Ctrl, in which
case it inserts)
* Delete it - just hit Delete. If the passage was selected with Ctrl (and so
had a double-box
round it), the bars themselves will be deleted too.
* Repeat it with R - see Repeating selections below
* Transpose it, either using the Transpose dialog (see 5.17 Transposing) to
transpose by a specific interval, or diatonically by
step using the Up/Down keys. Ctrl+Up/Down, Add shift to transpose by an
octave.
* Produce chords by adding notes above or below - type 1-9 to add an
interval above, or Shift1-9 to add an interval below
(but not the latter if you're using the
Notebook (laptop) feature set
* Play it back by choosing Play > Move Playback Line to Selection or hitting
Y, then click on
the play button in the Playback window or hit Space
* Arrange the music for a different combination of instruments, "explode"
the passage onto a
larger number of staves, or "reduce" it onto a smaller number - see5.1
ArrangeT
* Run a plug-in to check, edit or add things to the selection - see5.11
Plug-ins
* Add articulations to all notes/chords using the first or fourth Keypad
layout
* Reset the note spacing to default by choosing Layout > Reset Note Spacing
(shortcut
Ctrl+Shift+N).
Multicopying
Multicopying allows you quickly to copy a single selection, multiple
selection or passage several
times either horizontally (along the same staff), vertically (onto more than
one staff), or both at
once.
Multicopying a single object
You can copy a single object, such as a note or some text, vertically across
any number of staves.
This is perhaps most useful for copying dynamic markings (e.g. mf ) across
multiple staves at
once:
* Select a single object and choose Edit > Copy (shortcut Ctrl+C) to copy it
to the clipboard
* Select a passage in one or more staves and choose Edit > Paste (shortcut
Ctrl+V) to copy
the item to the start of the passage only, one copy on each staff.
Multicopying a multiple selection
As an extension of the above, you can select more than one object and copy
them vertically across
any number of staves. This is particularly useful for copying a row of
dynamics:
* Make a multiple selection - Ctrl+click the objects you want to copy or
select them
with a filter (e.g. Edit > Filter > Dynamics), then choose Edit > Copy
(shortcut Ctrl+C) to
copy them to the clipboard
* Select a passage in one or more staves and choose Edit > Paste (shortcut
Ctrl+V) to copy
the selection to the start of the passage only, one copy for every staff,
with relative distances
between the original objects retained in the new copies. If hidden staves
are included in the destination passage, multicopy will
copy onto the hidden staves too.
Multicopying a passage
* Select a passage in one or more staves and choose Edit > Copy (shortcut
Ctrl+C) to copy
it to the clipboard
* Select another passage and choose Edit > Paste (shortcut Ctrl+V) to fill
the new passage
with multiple copies of the original passage. The new passage is filled in
the following way:
- Horizontally: if the destination passage is longer than the original, a
whole number of copies
is pasted into the new passage (with any leftover bars at the end left
unchanged). If the destination passage is shorter than the
original, only one copy is made.
- Vertically: if the destination passage contains more staves than the
original, a whole number
of copies is made from the top downwards (with any leftover staves at the
bottom left
unchanged). If the destination passage has fewer staves than the original,
only one copy is
made.
Beware that multicopying overwrites the original contents of the destination
passage, and copies
onto any hidden staves that are included in the destination passage.
Repeating selections
You can also use Edit > Repeat (shortcut R) to make multiple copies of any
selection, as follows:
* Select a note, chord, passage, multiple selection, line, text object,
symbol, chord diagram,
imported graphic, instrument change, clef, key signature or barline and type
R.
* The selected object(s) are repeated once to the right; to repeat again,
keep hitting R.
Dave
Oregonian, woodworker, Engineer, Musician, and Pioneer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave (Redacted sender "dgcarlson" for DMARC)"
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 08:10
Subject: [sib-access] Re: keystroke shortcuts
Michael,
If you're talking Sib 5.2.5 with the scripts, try going into the help system
and reviewing all the layers of keystrokes for selecting bars, staves,
scores, etc. Many of the single-stave selection keystrokes are extended by
adding another modifier key. Have not used Sib for a while, so not precisely
sure where the help is, but it's somewhere...
Dave
Oregonian, woodworker, Engineer, Musician, and Pioneer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Arnowitt" <MA@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 03:35
Subject: [sib-access] keystroke shortcuts
Hi all,
Working on another large composing and arranging project with scores of
eight instruments. Are there any handy keyboard shortcuts to be able to
quickly do any of the following:
1. select an entire measure top to bottom all instruments
2. select a large number of measures in one instrument, say 30 bars - right
now I am ctrl + shift + right arrowing one bar at a time
3. immediately move from the top staff of a score to the bottom staff in the
same measure
4. select all measures on one line of one instrument (what you could do with
the mouse by double clicking)
5. select all measures in the entire score of one instrument (what you could
do with the mouse by triple clicking)
6. how do you select a measure with control that makes the double box around
the measure so you can delete it
That's my wish list. Hoping it might be a little like Excel and there would
be ways to do some of these things with keystroke combinations.
Michael
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