None of the existing navigation plugins will do what you want. The Timeline would be able to do what you want if it were accessible, but it appears no to be accessible.
The timeline gives a nice grid, once expanded out, so you can choose both the staff and bar you want to go to. For a large score it takes up a lot of space to give you the grid that allows you to do that.
If no one else has a plugin, or another solution, I could provide a new plugin that lists all the staves in a score, and you could choose one and hit OK, and the plugin could do something.
Among the "somethings" it could do would be:
1. Just bring the desired staff into view without changing the selection. This is not entirely precise, because a plugin still needs to specify a bar to bring into view, and even then, the exact position in the screen is up to Sibelius.
2. Change the selection to be somewhere in the chosen staff.
#2 is a bit tricky.
If you have dragged the visible score away from the selection, and just want to move down (as when hitting Page Down), you are out of luck. A plugin has no access to which bars are visible on the screen.
So the plugin could have a "Bar" control, as Go To Bar does, and you would type in a bar number and choose a staff from a list, and you would go there.
If this is acceptable, it would be easy to write. I am not sure how convenient it would be to a sight-impaired user, but it is at least deterministic. It could either passage select the bar, system passage select the bar, or select the first object in the bar.
Alternatively, the plugin could move the selection to the desired staff at the first bar of the current selection. This is itself messy, depending on what the selection is. A passage selection is easy: go to the first selected bar. A multiple selection is weird - the first selected object is based on selection order, so it is hard to say what to do. But say it chooses the first selected object.
Anyway, Kevin, if you are interested in such a plugin, please contact me by email, and we can try to work through the options. Once we know exactly what would be useful it would not be hard to write such a plugin.
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Bob
Just a user of Sibelius. Sib 1.2 - 7, Windows 7 Pro SP 1 64 bit, 4 G RAM. Year 2014. |