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Figurato is a specialist font for figured bass notation. It allows for easy input of multiple vertically stacked numbers and accidentals, and can be used in all major commercial desktop notation software.

This plug-in for Sibelius allows you to specify the music font for the Beats Per Minute (BPM) characters in 'Tempo' text and 'Metronome mark' text, with options to format associated equal signs, dashes and parentheses.

Newsletter: Avid Sibelius and Dorico tips; updates to chord symbol fonts and use with Finale Music Notation Software; MOLA :: Major Orchestra Librarians' Association 2019 conference roundup; Notation Express demo from NYC Music Services; more

Plug-in guru Bob Zawalich's tour de force on using font sizes in wildcards in Sibelius, with detailed instructions on converting points to spaces.

A collection of Sibelius tips and plug-ins to help space your music not too wide, not too narrow, but just right.

A video review of our favorite features in Sibelius since version 8.0 was released in 2015. If you haven’t yet updated from 7.5 (or earlier), or even if you have, you'll appreciate knowing what’s included.

This plug-in for Sibelius allows you to specify the music font for the Beats Per Minute (BPM) characters in 'Tempo' text and 'Metronome mark' text, with options to format associated equal signs, dashes and parentheses.

PDFwriter for Mac is a free utility allows you to install a virtual printer on your Mac and make PDFs that take full advantage of Sibelius's built-in print options.