The creation assistant allows you to define the main
parameters of a new score. To reach it, select the Creation
assistant item in the File menu. The following
dialog box appears:

To use it efficiently, follow the steps indicated here:
- Determine the total number of measures of your score.
Fill this number in the text box entitled Number of
measures. For example, fill in "32".
- Determine the main tonality by clicking on the first Select
button
The key signature dialog box
appears. Select for example Major D (two sharps at the
clef).
- Select then the time signature by clicking on the second Select
button
The time signature dialog box
allows you to select for example 3/4.
- The list contains by default a single instrument. You can
modify its characteristics, displayed to the right of the
list. Complete for example as follows:
- Full name: Clarinet
- Short name: Cl.
- Clef : Treble clef (by clicking on the clef, the
clef dialog box appears)
- Octave transposition: 0 (used to transpose the
instrument by one or more octaves)
- Check the Transposing instrument box and
select the flat B note.
- You can then add new instruments, by the Add button.
For each one of them, specify the characteristics as
above. Add for example the two following instruments:
- Organ - Org. - Treble clef - Transposition
"0" - non transposing instrument
- Double bass - Dbb - Bass clef - Transposition
"-1" - non transposing instrument
- The Down and Up buttons lets you modify
the order of instruments. The Delete button
eliminates an instrument.
- By default, Pizzicato will propose you a page layout of
the score. If you do not want it now, disable the
Calculate page setup box.
- Once your instrument list is established, click on the Create
button. If you choose a page layout, the page layout
dialog box appears :

- If needed, modify the parameters and click Compute
and OK. In the previous example, the score appears:

It has three pages. You can now encode the notes, modify the
score and use all the tools you want. This dialog box is simply a
fast start used to create a structure for your score.
When you write a full orchestral score or a
score with several instruments, it is often necessary to
print the scores for each separate instrument. They are
called a part. It is the score given to each member
of the orchestra and which contains only what this member
personally plays.
Open the Ex076.piz example. Its
main view contains a score named My orchestra. Open
it :

It contains 19 different staves. To obtain
the oboe score, use the selection tool to select the oboe
staff. Then, in the Edit menu, select the Extract
parts item. The following dialog box appears:

- The Group multimeasure rests box
asks Pizzicato to combine consecutive rest measures.
- The Justify measures box
asks Pizzicato to justify measures once the part is
extracted.
- The following box automatically
creates a page layout to prepare the printing.
- The following menu specifies how
measures are numbered in the parts. Select Each
System.
- Click OK.
- In the page layout dialog box, disable
the Set the number of measures per staff to option
and click OK. The part score of the oboe
appears:

By calling the main view, you may observe
that it contains a new score named Oboe:

The extracted part score is now a score in
itself, independent of the main score. You can modify its
page layout if you want. All the extracted parts remain
nevertheless associated to the main score and will be
recorded together on the disk. Notice that you can select
several staves to extract them together, as for piano and
harp, both written on two staves. The two staves are then
extracted and placed in a new score.