From the course: Sibelius Ultimate 2019 Essential Training: The Basics
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Laying out a score in portrait - Sibelius Tutorial
From the course: Sibelius Ultimate 2019 Essential Training: The Basics
Laying out a score in portrait
- [Instructor] When starting a layout of a score, it's important to visually see how our scores fitting within its page margins. Because Sibelius has a tendency to trick you by placing things, particularly, the title outside of the page margins, let's just go ahead and take a look at them. So, you can go to the View tab to the Invisibles group, and show Page Margins. I'm going to go ahead and zoom out a little bit, so we can start seeing whole pages on our screen. So we can see here, these dash lines are our page margins and you just want to make sure nothing is outside of those, like you don't want your title way up here. We'd have to fix that if it was out there. Right now, it looks like it's behaving itself. That looks good through all the pages, so we're good there. And now, just to be sure that our staves are landing where they're supposed to be into their default positions, I recommend this next step as well. Go ahead…
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