9. The Score

Presentations and parts

One song often needs several scores: the full score for the leader, a part for each player, a lead sheet with only the melody. In Stab these are presentations. Each picks some of the song’s tracks and can change the score’s style and its breaks, but the notes are the song’s, so an edit anywhere shows in every presentation at once.

Presentations and parts

Available on every platform.

The working score and presentations

A Score pane shows the Working Score unless you pick a presentation: the whole song, which you can narrow to some tracks in the same menu, as an Editor pane’s tracks. The working score is for writing; presentations are for reading and printing.

Pick what a Score pane shows from its context chip, after the pane’s kind on its bar. The song’s presentations are listed under Working Score.

Making them

From a Score pane’s context chip:

• Create Full Score and Parts makes a Full Score with every track, and a part for each track, named after it. The parts leave out the part names at the systems’ left, gather bars of rest together, and add a TAB staff under fretted parts. The pane then shows the full score.
• New Presentation makes one from the tracks the pane shows now, named “Presentation 1” (or the first number free), and shows it.

Each is one undo step.

Changing one

With a presentation shown, the context chip lists Tracks in This Presentation: choose a track to put it in or take it out. Each is one undo step.

Score Setup sets the presentation the pane shows (Score Setup). There:

• Its Presentation section has its Name (select it to rename), TAB staff under fretted parts, its Tracks, and Delete Presentation.
• Every other setting starts as the song’s style, shown dimmed. Change one and it becomes this presentation’s own; its ↺ takes it back to the song’s.

A presentation also keeps:

• Its own breaks, where its systems and pages begin: see Page view and breaks.
• Concert pitch or written pitch for transposing instruments, from the pane’s ⚙: see Transposing instruments and concert pitch.
• Its own theme: Score Theme in the pane’s ⚙, while the pane shows the presentation, sets it for the presentation, so every pane showing it draws it so, and its PDF is printed in it when Export PDFs in the Score’s theme is on in Settings (off, PDFs are black on white). Workspace gives it back to each pane’s own theme.

To delete the presentation shown, choose Delete and its name from the context chip, or Delete Presentation in Score Setup. The pane goes back to the working score.

Exporting them

The Export sheet’s Score PDF lists the presentations under Scores: tick those to write. Each makes a PDF named after the song and the presentation (“Song — Bass.pdf”), in a folder of their own when there are several; or, with Files on One PDF (in the apps for Mac, iPad and iPhone), one PDF with them in order, as a conductor’s pack. Export Presentations as PDFs… in the command search opens the sheet with every presentation ticked, a PDF each.

The PDFs are written as Export Score as PDF writes one: pages as Page View shows them, black on white unless Settings ask for the Score’s theme.