You can input text at specific rhythmic positions in the score using text items. You can input staff-attached text for single staves or input system-attached text that applies to all staves and appears in all applicable layouts.
If you want to insert text that is independent of rhythmic positions and attached to a particular page, you can use text frames.
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Open the text editor in any of the following ways:
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To input staff-attached text, press Shift-X or click Popovers
, then Text
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To input staff-attached text with a specific paragraph style, choose .
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To input system-attached text, press Shift-Alt/Opt-X.
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To input system-attached text with a specific paragraph style, choose .
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During note input, the text you entered into the text editor is input at the caret position. When adding text to existing music, it is input at the position of the earliest selected item.
If you did not change or specify the paragraph style, the text item uses the Default Text paragraph style.
Text items are automatically placed above the staves to which they apply and follow your project-wide settings for the vertical position of text.
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In Dorico Pro, system-attached text is categorized as a system-attached item. Therefore, system-attached text follows your per-layout settings for the visibility and positioning of system-attached items.
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For each paragraph style independently, you can change the default staff-relative placement, distance from the staff, and collision avoidance behavior in the Paragraph Styles dialog.
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For all text items project-wide, you can change the minimum distance between text items and other items on the Text page in Engraving Options.
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You can assign key commands for inputting text with specific paragraph styles that you have saved to your user library, for both Create Text and Create System Text, on the Key Commands page in Preferences.