Apple Logic Express 7 - Manual (Page 427)

Chapter 15 Score Editor 427
Music Fonts as Fonts for Text Styles
Musical Symbol Fonts do not contain letters. They only contain musical symbols. Text
objects that use these fonts in Text Styles can be used for free positioning of musical
symbols anywhere in the score. (Such as special percussion symbols).
Text Input
To insert text in the score, you need to get a Text object from the Part box, and drag it
to the desired position with the mouse. During this procedure, the mouse cursor
becomes the Text tool. You can also grab the Text tool from the Toolbox, and use it
directly for text input. Each Text object (except text in the Header, directly at the page
margins, or outside the margins) is saved as a Meta Event within a particular MIDI
Region, at a certain bar position. This position can be seen in the Help Tag, as you insert
the text object. Text events are also visible in the Event Editor, allowing you to change
their position, but not the text itself.
Following the insertion of the text object at the desired position (and releasing the
mouse button), a flashing text cursor appears at that position. Now you can enter text
with the computer keyboard. The basic functions for moving the cursor, deleting parts
of the text and so on are as per most word processors.
As long as you are in text entry mode (indicated by the flashing text cursor), you can
click on any position in the text to place the cursor there. You can also select parts of
the text by dragging the mouse, and applying the usual cut/copy/paste commands.
Press Return, or click anywhere outside the text, to leave text entry mode.
The newly inserted or edited text object is selected (the text flashes), and you can see
its parameters in the Event Parameter box: