Hi Does anyone know if it is possible to remove the partmarker (usually 1a) at the beginning of a tune showing in leadsheet mode. I use a print screen editor to save my music from the leadsheet in pdf format, and as the partmarker sometimes conflicts with the best lyric height it would be usefull to remove it. Best regards, Keethen.
Under "Lead sheet | Opt" settings, it sounds like you have the bar numbers set to 'none'. This will remove all bar numbers and part markers except for 1A. As far as I'm aware, it is not possible to remove 1A.
If you print to pdf from within BIAB, the part markers are not printed on the lead sheet.
Also, it's possible to move the lyrics up/down, in the "Lead sheet | Opt | Notation | Lyric Position" settings. Negative number will move the lyric position one way and positive numbers the other.
Hi Many thanks for those responses. Although a 'newbie' to the forum I've been using BB since version 7 and I agree that there does not seem to be a way of removing the 1a partmarker. The reason I thought I'd ask the question is that I've noticed that two pieces of music (one entered by myself in BB, the other I think came from the Folk tunes included in BB), whilst having a 1a partmarker in the main screen, DOES NOT have one in Leadsheet view. I've done my best to find out if the settings are different in any way but have not succeeded yet!
I never noticed this, as I use other software for printing and I'm no expert on the BIAB print settings. But it does seem like an annoyance that could be changed.
Just curious, have you tried the free notation program, MuseScore? It can import a BIAB file, chords and all.
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Thanks Matt. I might look at that but the system I use now seems to work and I can edit out the partmarker before taking a cropped print screen using PicPick (free). The quality is good & I just use Word to build up a tunebook arranged in sets. If I do find out why the pieces without partmarkers are different I'll post it here. Keethen
I just fooled around with this. There is a checkbox in File, Print, More that says to include the printing of A/B part markers. I think if this if NOT checked, the part marker at measure one should not be printing (but it is). The B part marker DOES disappear...
I'm going to send this to the developers and ask about it.
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As I mentioned in my post above, even though the 1A part marker appears on-screen in leadsheet view, it does not appear in a pdf printout if that printout is done within BIAB. (This behaviour can be see using "Print Preview" within the "Print" dialogue window.)
Have you tried printing directly to a pdf driver rather than printing from the screen?
I don't use the "Print to PDF" button within BIAB's print dialogue. I have Bullzip PDF printer installed on my system and I use that. All I do is to select it as my printer when printing. A number of users on here also use Cute PDF print driver to do the same thing.
I never tried actually printing, because I assumed the print preview would match the printout. Are you saying that’s not the case? Or that different PDF printers handle it differently?
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Thanks Noel. Just to say I generally do not print music - mostly use my laptop & PDF's. I'm reasonably happy using the method I mentioned above but not having to edit the '1a' would be good if it was available. My question really is about why I have a couple of pieces of BB music that don't have any partmarkers at all in leadsheet view, even though they have exactly the same settings as all the others that do, in Notation Windows Options & Lead Sheet Options. Beginning to look as though it might just be a fluke/quirk. Cheers, Keethen
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