The Staff Style method is the only "correct" way of doing this, IMO. Text blocks and measure expressions are not designed for this purpose. Robert Patterson has a plugin called "Force Full Names"...

Scott, the Message Bar, not "Measure Bar" I can confirm jasako's behavior; also it seems that changing the preference setting of the message bar has no effect until you actually close and re-open the...

Well, kind of, sort of... If you save your text expression library and then load it into another document, you will get a duplicate set of all the default categories (Dynamics, Tempo Marks, Tempo...

I've experienced similar problems occasionally with multiple measure regions not retaining settings, but have never been able to consistently replicate the problem. Sorry I can't be more helpful. If...

I don't know what the cause of the problem would be, but if there are a lot of triplets, you could note the tuplet settings from a default 2009 file and then enter them into your document options for...