Hopefully this can be improved in the future (though as a disclaimer, I have no inside knowledge of any future plans in this regard!) For now though, there is an admittedly-complex workaround:
EDIT: Plug-in developer extraordinaire Bob Zawalich has already written a plug-in to automate this process. Download it here (and read more information about it at the bottom of this page).
- Select the passage of notes to which you want to add note names. (I assume for the purposes of this workaround that they are all in voice 1.)
- Choose Edit > Filter > Voices > Voice 1 Only.
- Copy the notes to the clipboard (Edit > Copy, or CTRL-C).
- Re-select the notes as a passage, like in step 1.
- Choose Edit > Voice > Swap 1 and 3.
- Run the plug-in to add note names on the selected notes (Plug-ins > Other > Add Note Names to Notehead).
- Deselect everything by clicking on a blank part of the score (or pressing ESC).
- Edit > Paste (or press CTRL-V), then click where the notes start with the mouse.
- Now go to Edit > Color... and choose white (clicking OK to close the dialog).
You should now find that the stave lines behind the named notes are no longer visible. This works because voice 1 notes are drawn before voice 3 notes, so if you make them white then this effectively erases the background.
(Note that this workaround only works in version 5 or 6 of Sibelius, and requires the option "Hidden notes and rests don't affect stem directions and rests" to be switched on in Engraving Rules > Notes and Tremolos. This is because otherwise the voice 3 notes will have their stems forced up, which is not what you want.)
1 comments:
Hi James,
Just wanted to mention that while your procedure works well for solid notes, it will not work for whole and half notes. Since noteheads are transparent, there is nothing to color, and the staff and leger lines will show through.
The Add Note Name to Noteheads White plugin you mention goes through some effort to fix this; it creates some special noteheads that are the correct shape (named whole notes are a different shape than regular ones), and are filled with objects that can be colored. It also makes the "hiding" notes stemless, silent and does something special with leger lines.
To actually get these things to look right all the time is a substantial amount of work, so I really do recommend using the plugin, unless all you notes are quarter notes/crotchets or below.
Cheers,
Bob Zawalich
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