Hakim-Au

According to Google Fonts, Noto Music is supposed to be a font that will produce music notes. This doesn't happen in Affinity or Word, but does on the Google fonts site. How can I print music notes in Affinity, preferably Publisher? I have just spent ages downloading Sibelius, adding a few notes to a staff and placing the pdf export into Af-Photo. Cropping and erasing the staff etc eventually gave me what I wanted, but what a tedious process. I am on Windows 11 using Af 2.1 (Which crashed once when dragging a .png asset onto the open photo page.) Thanks for input/advice. Hakim

Right, problem solved. I had it in my head it was an either or and had tried it the other way around. Thank you very much Murfee.

Hi Murfee, thanks for replying. When that is ticked the text no longer has the red dots at the end but can only be copied line by line. Not that useful.

Greetings all, I was hoping to be able to copy and paste some material from this document to facilitate referencing correctly. When I open the file in APub I get single lines with red dots at each end. What's happening here? Attached are the screen shots and the pdf file if that is of any use. With thanks, Hakim Style_Guide_for_the_University_of_Divinity_-_2022.pdf

My simplistic expectations of cause and effect vs the real world are showing I very much appreciate the guidance you and @MikeTO are offering; gentle, sure and inviting growth. Thank you both

The short answer is it works with your suggested change but the preferences window after restarting still shows English(United States) as the language. Another rabbit hole with interesting learning. I thought it wasn't working because after every restart the default language in preferences still said 'English(United States)'. All this was done without a file loaded. Before reading your post I typed two simple words to test the dictionary change, the words for mother as mom (US) and as mum (AU). Neither was flagged when the US dictionary was loaded. But after using your suggestion and loading the file again, mom is flagged as a spelling error. I added another common difference, words with the US ize ending verses the Au ise. Again the US version was flagged. So it is working but the program is not reporting the correct language. Many thanks.

Thank you Bruce. Yes, I think you are right about the margins. I managed to keep the margins and text frame because I had already established those in the first three single pages, but I kept the margins but lost only the text frames in the process of adding more pages and then dragging the master with the page numbers only onto them. It's a clunky way of learning but a lot of ancillary learning happens along the journey. Thinking about it now, I think I did use none but didn't lose anything on the cover page to which it was applied. Will try again looking to see what happens. Best wishes, Hakim

Greetings all. Search shows only V1 Q&As. I have tried using the V1 files and instructions without success. I have both en-AU.dic and en-AU.aff in the C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\2.0\Dictionaries folder, have closed APub and rebooted - twice - but nothing changes. Am I missing something? With thanks, and patience in this busy time. Hakim

You are right Mike and after a good sleep, deleting my existing master pages and starting again, I found/created success. Set up and populated a group of single pages with both cover page and body/bibliography draft text. Created two single, not facing, master pages, one blank and one with just the page number at the bottom. Dragged blank master onto the cover page, selected all the others and dragged the page-numbered master onto them. Section manager functioned as it should and I have the desired outcome, successfully tested with a couple of exported PDFs. Now pondering whether I really need the blank master ... I am now a happy person who is ready to start learning in a structured way, looking forward to working through tutorial material designed for AV2. Many thanks, Hakim

Thanks again Walt, I have been playing with APub most of the day and have ended up feeling frustrated. The absence of beginner stuff that answers my need for V2 leads to much trial and error. As assignments can be presented in word or pdf I finally settled on no master pages and no facing pages. At this stage it looks like manual entry of page numbers is the simplest method. Sections insist on numbering the first section - one page in this case - and I haven't found a way to do this in APub yet. The Bibliography will just be the last page or two, not needing anything different. Best wishes, Hakim

Thank you walt.farrell and MikeTO. Walt, the requirements for the Bibliography are simply pages at the end of the assignment with a precisely formatted alphabetical list of references. This I can create manually. It is more the initial setup of the document which I can then use as a template for all the assignments. My assumption is three sections using master pages. Section 1 - a cover page with a blank reverse side Section 2 - the numbered pages of the body of the assignment with footnotes Section 3 - the Bibliography Mike, Word 365 and citing do not work on my machine. Word is simply flaky most of the time on both my desktop and laptop. Thank you both for your support. Hakim

Greetings from a brand new user to V2. I bought V1 but never really used it, not investing the time to learn. Perhaps that is an asset now as I don't have anything to unlearn. MS Word and Endnote don't work well together on my machines and seeing the What's new in Publisher V2 video on Youtube demonstrating the new capacity to include footnotes was enough to justify an upgrade. I have searched the forum for info on bibliography and read some suggestions for V1 using master pages but basically saying APub was useless for academic work. Does anyone here have advice for a newbie on setting up something for uni assignments which require a cover page, the body of the assignment with page numbers and footnotes, and a bibliography? Many thanks, Hakim