> 1) While using 2/2 time, I had a heck of a time getting a whole note in three different measures.
If you position a note using the mouse, Sibelius puts the note on beat in the bar nearest to where you click the mouse. Probably you weren't clicking close enough to the first barline, so the note was going on the second quarter-note of the bar.
When you enter a note, in some situations Siblelius will "split" it and tie it over a bar line if it won't fit in the current bar. There have been several heated threads here about whether that is a good or bad design, but that's what it does!.
In File > Preferences > Mouse Input, you can select what positions you want Sibelius to put notes (the nearest quarter note, 8th-note, etc). I can't remember what the default is - probably at 1/4 or 1/8 note positions.
> In some of these psalms, there are 6 to 8 verses, I see that Sibelius shows Lyric line 1 through 5 so I ended up adding the others but then when I went to input line 6, it went right on top of line 5...
* Go to House Style > Edit Text Styles. Select "Lyrics line 5" then click "new". That creates a new style that behaves the same way as the existing Lyrics styles.
* Change the name to "Lyrics line 6", don't change anything else, click "OK"
* Repeat for line 7,8, etc. Quit the Edit Text Styles window
* Go to House Style > Default Positions, make sure you are looking at "text styles".
* If you look at the original Lyric Line styles, you will see the "vertical position relative to staff" is different for each line. They increase in steps of 2.5 spaces. Set the distances for your new styles following the same pattern - probably line 6 = 16.5, line 7 = 19, line 8 = 21.5, etc
If have done some of this already, and entered some lyrics, select them and do Layout > Reset Position to move them to the new default position. When you create more lyrics, they should appear be at the default position.
Finally, you probably want to do House Style > Export House Style to save all your formatting changes. Then you can Import House Style to use them in another score.
There isn't an easy way to do superscripts. You just have to create a separate text item and position it yourself. You could create another set of text styles with vertical positions for superscripts and a smaller font size, if you use this a lot - then you only have the horizontal position to worry about.
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Rob
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