Score Style

The page, the music font, the engraving and the text of a score, and the colours it has on screen.

Available on iPad, iPhone and Mac.

How a score is drawn is its style: the paper, the music font, the thickness of every line and the space between staves, the fonts of its titles and numbers. The style is kept in the score’s file, so it looks the same on every device and on paper. Its colours on screen are a score theme, which is yours rather than the score’s.

Score Style

Tap the eye in the top bar, then Score Style….Choose View › Score Style…, or Score › Score Style. Every change shows on the score as you make it; Done closes the sheet. The sections follow each other down the sheet.Its sections are listed down the left: Preset, Page, Music Font, Engraving, Display and Fonts.

Presets and your own styles

The three presets set the whole style at once: Default (the Bravura music font), Classic (Leland, the look of a printed classical score) and Modern (Petaluma, a handwritten look). A change of yours after that makes the style Custom.

The tray button at the top keeps your own styles: Save Current… names the score’s style and keeps it on this device, it is listed under it to apply to another score, and Delete… removes one.

Classic and Modern are part of the unlock. Without it, you can still choose one to see it on your score: a line at the top says it is a preview, Cancel puts your score back as it was, and Purchase opens the unlock.

Page size, orientation and scale

• Page Size: A4, US Letter, A5 or Legal.
• Orientation: Portrait or Landscape.
• Page Scale: the size of the music on the page, from 40 % to 100 %. Smaller fits more bars on a page.

The music font

Included with the unlock · What the unlock adds

The Music Font draws the notes, rests, clefs and every other sign: Bravura, Leland or Petaluma. Choosing one also sets the engraving to suit it. The music fonts other than Bravura are part of the unlock; without it, a choice is a preview, as with the presets.

Engraving

Engraving sets the score’s lines and spaces, in staff spaces (the distance between two lines of a staff):

• Stroke Widths: staff lines, stems, beams and the space between them, barlines, ledger lines, tuplet brackets.
• Spacing: between the staves of a system, between systems, between the lines of the tab, between lines of lyrics, and the margin around each beat.
• Sizing: chord diagrams, grace notes, how far beams sit from the notes, and where dynamics go.
• Font Scaling: the size of the fret numbers on the tab, and of cue notes’ fret numbers.

Reset to Defaults puts the engraving back to Reflow’s own values.

Display and measure numbers

• Layout: Automatic lets the music push staves apart where it needs room; Fixed keeps the staves at the spacing you set, whatever they hold. Fixed is part of the unlock.
• Drum Accents Above Staff and Hide Standard Notation (the tab alone, without the staff above it).
• Measures per System: how many bars a line holds, from 1 to 20.
• Show Measure Numbers: at the start of every system, at every bar, or every so many bars; at the first beat or on the barline; from the number you choose, with the first bar’s left out if you like. Reset Number Positions puts back the numbers you dragged.

Text fonts

Fonts lists the score’s texts (the title, the artist, the tempo, chord names, fret numbers, lyrics, bar numbers…), each in its own font. Turn on Custom to choose a font and a size for each; off, the style’s own fonts are used.

Score themes and dark

A score theme colours the page and the music on your screen: Classic (black on white), Dark, Sepia, Midnight Blue, Solarized Dark and Solarized Light. Tap the eye in the top bar, then Score Theme.Choose View › Score Theme. The theme is a setting of the app, not of the score: every score you open takes it, and it doesn’t change with the system’s dark mode, so choose Dark yourself for a dark page.

Printing and PDF are always black on white. An image export uses the theme when you turn on Use score theme colors.