A tiled window, yesterday. (Courtesy starrynight1 on Flickr)
Continuing my series of posts about my favourite small improvements in Sibelius 6, today’s example is short and sweet.
One of the little-known features of Sibelius is that you can open multiple windows on the same score, which can show different pages at different zoom factors. This is useful if you want to copy music from one place in the score and paste it somewhere else, or if you want to look at (say) the recapitulation and the exposition of your sonata form movement at the same time (I’m sure many people are writing sonata form movements in Sibelius even as I type this, of course). To do this, just choose Window > New Window. Simple!
A couple of useful adjuncts have been added to the Mac version of Sibelius 6, which have always been present in the Windows version: the new Tile Horizontally and Tile Vertically commands, also found in the Window menu.
Tile Horizontally takes all of the open windows, from all open scores, and positions them in horizontal strips down the screen, one above the other, such that they don’t overlap. Tile Vertically, on the other hand, takes all of the open windows and positions them in vertical strips, side by side
Next time you’re working on multiple documents at the same time, or have multiple views on the same window open, give tiling a try.
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Great – thanks for the update!
What about fullscreen? Any chance of that feature making it over to the Mac?
That’s an interesting one, Trevor. It’s certainly possible that we might add it in a future version, but it’s rarely requested, and indeed I suspect that the Full Screen option is relatively rarely used even in the Windows version of Sibelius.
I use it quite often.
Am I the only person in the world who thinks “Tile vertically” should create a set of tiles that are stacked, while “Tile horizontally” should create tiles that are side-by-side?
I realize you’re probably just following the Windows convention, but, to me, ’tile’ is an action like ‘arrange’. If I were asked to arrange some things horizontally, I wouldn’t stack them.
Perhaps “Wide tiles” and “Tall tiles” would be more descriptive, albeit less cross-platformy.
Tiling is very useful.. The only issue I find is that if each windows has a different score jumping between them takes time.. This is because each score loads the samples/instruments each time to focus on it rather than remembering what was there.
If I have say an orchestral score and a brass score that I am re-orchestrating (a real example in process right now) jumping between and reloading the instruments can get frustrating. That said it is still a quicker way than re-entering all the notes etc. by hand.
Just a shame the OPTION key does not copy the highlighted bars/notes between different scores. Still copy and past is only a few key strokes.
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