Using templates |
What is a template? [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] A template is a prepared music document you
can use to start a score faster. If you often write jazz band
scores, it is practical to have a template with all prepared
staves for each instrument but which contents are empty. By
opening the template, you must not create the various staves,
indicate the instruments names, nor configure the synthesizer
and sound volumes
All is ready in the template document
of your jazz band. You can thus immediately begin the
interesting work: what are the instruments going to play. According to the version you have,
Pizzicato offers a more or less sophisticated template
management.
Pizzicato Light and specialized versions [Light] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] When Pizzicato starts, it automatically opens the first score
template found in the File menu, Open template...
item. The same happens when you select the New item of
the File menu. By selecting the Open template... item from the File
menu, a sub-menu offers you a series of templates related to the
Pizzicato version you have. Examine them in order to see what is
possible. You can start a score using these templates and modify
them to your needs (except for Pizzicato Light, its 12 templates
being fixed and limited to 1 or 2 pages). Pizzicato Beginner [Beginner] When Pizzicato start, it automatically opens a score template.
By default, it is one page of a piano score. The same happens
when you select the New item of the File menu. To change this default template, select the Global
options item in the Options menu. The following
dialog box appears: By clicking the Select
button, Pizzicato lets
you select a score to be used as the default template. You can
use some of the documents located in the Templates directory,
itself locate in the DataEN directory. Those are the
documents in linear mode or page, but with a page zoom equal to
100% (or not specified). You can also use a document that you
created, suited to your working needs (choral, jazz band, small
orchestra
). In the File menu, the Open template item
offers a hierarchy of template documents. It is a direct access
to all templates that can be used by the Beginner version,
located in the Templates directory (found inside the DataEN
directory) and sub-directories. The selected document is then
open as a template that you can work with and save under a
personalized name. Pizzicato Pro, Notation and Composition [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] When Pizzicato is started, it automatically opens a score
template. By default, it is one page of a piano score. The same
happens when you select the New item of the File menu.
This document is named Document - xx (xx is a
sequence number incremented each time you create a new document).
When you save this document for the first time, Pizzicato will
automatically ask you to give it a name. In this way, the
original template is preserved. No risk to select the Save item
and forget to change the document name (this would otherwise
destroy the original template, replacing it with your score). To change this default template, select the Global
options item in the Options menu. The following
dialog box appears: With the first frame, labeled At Pizzicato startup,
you can determine what Pizzicato will automatically do when you
start it. You can select between: Just below, the frame entitled New document lets you
specify the action executed when you select the New item
in the File menu. The three available choices are
explained here above. Click OK. In the File menu, the Open template item
offers a hierarchy of template documents. It is a direct
access to all templates located in the Templates directory
(found inside the DataEN directory) and sub-directories.
The selected document is then open as a template that you can
work with and save under a personalized name.