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Multiple Composer Names

I do arrangements or transcriptions of other peoples compositions.  When I fill out the title information I am only allowed to put one name in for the composer.  This is a problem when you have a composer, or two, lyricist and an arranger.  How do you give all of the people credit who deserve it?  I tried the suggestion of exporting the score into a word document and that gave me the space I needed for names but a very poor quality printout.

Re: Multiple Composer Names

Reply #1 –
Leave the field blank in the Information window.

In the score, insert text at an appropriate place on the top staff, and move it up to where you want it (highlight it and use ctrl-arrow).

If you want the info at the right top of the page, you might force a system break (highlight the bar line, Ctrl-E, Force) at the end of the 4th or 6th measure, and put your text just before it, right justified,"at next note/bar," and don't preserve width.

If you're going to print separate parts, you can set the text visibility to top line only, and copy the text down to each staff.  If you want, you can place two or three text entries beside each other, and by adjusting the vertical position, avoid overlap.

Use print preview to check the position.

Re: Multiple Composer Names

Reply #2 –
...at the end of the 4th or 6th measure,
Really just "the last measure of the first line."
There could be 5 measures, or seven, or if there are multiple measures rest, you may even need to place it in measure 40, so just go by "the last measure of the first line."

Re: Multiple Composer Names

Reply #3 –
You're right, but it isn't always going to be easy to get a consistent line break from printed part to printed part.  I suggested 4 or 6 because of the symmetry, but make it 1, 3, 5, 7 or 952 if you want.  Who cares?