Changing the page settings Choose Layout > Document Setup (shortcut Ctrl+D or XD). You can then adjust the page size, page shape and staff size, as detailed below. The preview shows how the first page will look with the settings you’ve chosen; click the arrows to look through subsequent pages. When you click OK, the score will be instantly reformatted using the new measurements. (If you don’t like how it ends up, just choose Edit > Undo!) Paper sizes The Paper size list includes the following US and European paper sizes (although you can specify any width or height you like): Letter 8.5 x 11” 216 x 279mm Tabloid 11 x 17” 279 x 432mm (sometimes known as “B” size) A5 5.9 x 8.3” 149 x 210mm (A4 folded in half) B5 6.9 x 9.8” 177 x 250mm A4 8.3 x 11.7” 210 x 297mm B4 9.8 x 13.9” 250 x 354mm A3 11.7 x 16.5” 297 x 420mm (twice as big as A4) Band 5 x 7” 127 x 178mm (usually landscape format) Statement 5.5 x 8.5” 140 x 216mm Hymn 5.75” x 8.25” 146 x 205mm Octavo 6.75 x 10.5” 171 x 267mm Executive 7.25 x 10.5” 184 x 266mm Quarto 8.5 x 10.8” 215 x 275mm Concert 9 x 12” 229 x 305mm Folio 8.5 x 13” 216 x 330mm Legal 8.5 x 14” 216 x 356mm Part 9.5 x 12.5” 241 x 317mm Part 10 x 13” 254 x 330mm (The terms “Octavo” and “Quarto” refer to various other paper sizes too.) You can switch between inches, millimeters and points using the buttons provided. 1 inch = 25.4mm (absolutely exactly), 1mm = 0.0397 inches (almost exactly), and 1 point = exactly 1/72 inch = 0.353mm (approximately). Here are some recommended paper and staff sizes: * Keyboard, songs, solo instrument: Letter/A4, 0.25–0.3”/6–7mm staves * Orchestral/band scores: Letter/Tabloid/A4/A3, 0.1–0.2”/3–5mm staves * Parts: Letter/Concert/A4/B4, 0.25–0.3”/6–7mm staves * Choral music: Letter/A4 or smaller, 0.2”/5mm staves * Books for beginners: Letter/A4, 0.3–0.4”/8–10mm staves All these page sizes are portrait format; landscape format is seldom used, except for organ, marching band and brass band music. You’ll find that published music often doesn’t correspond exactly to any standard paper size. Document Setup Staff size The staff size is the distance from the center of the top staff line to the center of the bottom staff line. Everything in a score is scaled to be in proportion to the staff size – notes, clefs, text, etc. You can either type in a staff size or click the little arrows to change it in small steps. Click and hold the little arrows and watch the preview to see the effect of the staves growing and shrinking. Although staff sizes vary considerably, you should take care to set one appropriate to the kind of music you are writing. In general, if you set the staff size too small the performers will feel uncomfortable without necessarily knowing quite why. See above for recommended paper and staff sizes. Sibelius won’t change the staff size without your permission, so with lots of instruments on a small page the staves may have to squash very close together (or even overlap!). To alleviate this, simply pick a smaller staff size (or a larger page size). Page margins You can also set the page margins on the Layout > Document Setup dialog. Music can go right up to the page margins, but not outside. To make these margins visible in the score (as dashed blue lines), choose View > Page Margins. Your score can have the Same margins on left- and right-facing pages (recommended for single- sided printing), Mirrored margins (sometimes called “inside” and “outside” margins), or Different margins on left- and right-facing pages. The top and bottom margins are always identical on left- and right-facing pages. Specifically, the margins are defined as follows (if Same is chosen): * Top margin: where the top of the page number normally goes, if it’s at the top of the page * Bottom margin: where the bottom of the page number normally goes, if it’s at the bottom of the page * Left margin: the left-hand side of the leftmost instrument name * Right margin: the right-hand end of the staves. Staff margins Staff margins control the distance between the top and bottom staves on a page and the top and bottom page margins, and also the distance between the left-hand page margin and the left-hand side of the system. This allows you to set the default position of the staves on the page. It is common to require different top and bottom staff margins on the first page of a score, to accommodate things like the title and the name of the composer at the top, and copyright or publisher details at the bottom. Fortunately this is easily done: Type the staff margins you want to use for the first page of music in the score into the boxes on the left, then switch on After first page and type the values you want to use for subsequent pages into the boxes underneath the checkbox. For the left-hand margin there are three different values, depending on whether the staves have full instrument names, short instrument names (e.g. after the first page) or no instrument names. (Settings for instrument names may be found on the Instruments page of the House Style > Engraving Rules dialog These values update automatically if you change the staff size or change the length of the instrument names themselves (e.g. by editing an existing name, adding new instruments, or creating an instrument change). You can’t specify these separately for different pages in the score, as they update based on the width of the longest instrument name used in the entire score. Changing Document Setup partway through a score You cannot change the page size, orientation or staff size partway through a score, but you can change the page and staff margins at any point using special page breaks System objects Some objects apply to all the staves in a system, not any particular staff, and are called “system objects.” System objects are colored purple when you select them. Typical examples of system objects are titles, tempo marks, rehearsal marks and 1st and 2nd endings (1st-/2nd-time bars). Although these objects appear at the top of a system (and are sometimes duplicated lower down as well), they really refer to every staff in the system. For instance, they should go into every instrumental part, not just the instrument at the top of the score. Some menus and dialogs distinguish between staff and system objects. For instance, on the Create > Text menu, the text styles that are system objects are listed below the staff objects. To adjust which staves system objects appear above, see System Object Positions in b 7.11 Default Positions. Putting objects in weird places Occasionally you may want to put a piece of text or other object somewhere far from the music, such as off into a margin. It is fine to do this so long as you bear in mind that all objects are attached to the music, rather than being fixed to a particular point on the paper. For example, staff objects in the margin are usually attached to the nearest bar in the nearest staff, and will stay a fixed distance from that bar. If the music reformats, the bar will move somewhere else and so the object could end up in an even weirder place than you anticipated. So you may want to lock the format of the system or page to stop it from reformatting; House Style™ Exactly how a printed score looks is defined by its house style; different publishers have their own house styles, and Sibelius allows you to modify the house style of your scores to an almost unlimited degree. Aspects of a house style include: * Engraving Rules options – see below * Text styles * Symbol fonts and designs * Notehead designs * Instrument definitions and ensembles * Line designs * Object positions * Note spacing rule * Document setup (e.g. page and staff size) * Playback dictionary words * Default Multiple Part Appearance settings Most of these may be edited from the House Style menu. Predefined house styles When creating a new score or importing a house style (see below), you can choose from a list of ready-made house styles depending on the type of music and the overall look you want to give the score. Each house style name says the type of music it’s for (e.g. jazz), the music font used (Opus, Helsinki, Reprise or Inkpen2) and optionally the text font (Times, Georgia or Arial). Opus is a standard-looking music font, Helsinki is more traditional, and Reprise and Inkpen2 are handwritten. Times is a very standard text font, Georgia is a less common (and perhaps more traditional-looking) serif font, and Arial (also called Helvetica) is a modern sans serif font, for a much more contemporary (and perhaps less elegant) look. The Reprise house styles all use Reprise for the text as well as the music; similarly, Inkpen2 house styles all use Inkpen2 for the text too. The types of music are as follows: * Standard – the style used by the Blank manuscript paper; suitable for most kinds of music * Jazz – as Standard but with winged repeat barlines and all articulations above the staff, as used in jazz music * Keyboard – for solo keyboard music. Same as Standard but with dynamics exactly between the hands, no instruments names, no staff justification. * Larger notes – as Standard but with an alternative notehead shape that follows the design recommendations of the US Music Publishers Association * Lead sheet – same as Jazz but with initial barlines drawn on single-line systems * Vocal – for vocal and choral music. Same as Standard but with dynamics above the staff, no system separators, centered instrument names. We recommend you make a note of the Layout > Document Setup (page size, staff size and margins) settings of your score before importing them into existing scores. Then import the house style including the Engraving Rules and Document Setup settings; this will set your score to use A4 paper and 6mm staves, so after importing, change the Layout > Document Setup settings back to how they were previously. Reprise and Inkpen2 house styles The Reprise house styles have a lot of special settings. For example, rehearsal marks appear boxed with a drop shadow, titles use a special rubber stamp font called Reprise Title (in which all the characters are capitals, but typing lower and upper case produces the same letter form with different imperfections), while the instrument names at the top left-hand corner of the first page of dynamic parts use another rubber stamp font called Reprise Stamp. You can also add special curved brackets to text instructions above or below the staff – see Add Brackets to Reprise Script on page 426. The Inkpen2 house styles aren’t quite as dramatic as Reprise, but you may prefer the slightly thicker characters in Inkpen2 over the characters of Reprise, which look like they were drawn with a thinner nib. Other lines, such as staff lines, barlines, slurs and so on, are also thicker in general in the Inkpen2 house styles than in the Reprise house styles. When using one of the Reprise or Inkpen2 handwritten house styles, to get a really authentic look as you work on your score, why not change the paper texture to Paper, white crumpled on the Textures page in File > Preferences (in the Sibelius menu on Mac). For keyboard music, try printing with Substitute Braces switched off in the File > Print dialog (shortcut Ctrl+P or XP), to make braces look hand-drawn (as they do on the screen). However, this won’t work with some printers. Similarly, for parts, try switching on Draw H-bar using a symbol on the Bar Rests page of House Style > Engraving Rules (shortcut Ctrl+Shift+E or xXE) to make multirests look hand- drawn, though some printer drivers have bugs in which may prevent this printing correctly (and in extreme cases may even cause a crash).