User guide

Chapter 33 Working With Notation 779
 Hierarchy button: Click to switch the Staff Style window between single staff style
view and list views (the latter shows a list of all available staff styles).
 Tools: Contains the Pointer tool, the Pencil tool (for creating new staffs and voices)
and the Eraser tool (for deleting staff styles, staffs, or voices).
 Name box: The field shows the name of the selected staff style. Click the arrow
button next to it to open a pop-up menu that lists all styles available in the current
project. Switch to another staff style by choosing the desired entry
 Staff parameters: The parameters for staffs. Each line below the word Staff represents
one staff in the score display.
 Voice parameters: The parameters for independent voices. Each line below the word
voice represents one independent voice. The term voice only relates to the
simultaneous display of rhythmically independent, polyphonic passages in the
music—not the number of notes that can be displayed simultaneously. One voice
can consist of as many simultaneous notes (chords) as desired. Only notes which
should be displayed as rhythmically independent (from the other notes in the same
staff) need to be assigned to separate voices.
 Assign parameters: The parameters for the assignment of notes to the different
voices. Every staff can contain several independent voices (up to 16), but one voice
can not be displayed across different staffs. Therefore, a staff style must contain at
least as many voices as staffs.
The Staff Style window features the single staff style view shown above, and a list view.
The list view is mainly intended for copying staff styles between projects (see below),
or for deleting styles.
To switch the Staff Style window to list view, do one of the following:
m Double-click in the empty space below the parameters to switch to the list view.
Another double-click on one of the listed staff styles switches to the single view of that
particular Style.
m Click on the Hierarchy button to the left of the menu line.