User guide

Chapter 33 Working With Notation 805
Setting Breaks
You can set line, link, and page breaks individually for each score set, and also for each
of the extracted parts. Logic Express saves breaks with the project file.
Line Breaks
The automatic line break calculations are based on the Spacing and Max.Bars/Line
settings in the Global Score project settings. The Maximum Bars/Line project setting
determines the maximum number of bars Logic Express will allow in one staff or staff
system. You can override the automatic line break with the Layout tool (when in Page
view). You can also create a line break by inserting the Link Break symbol in any view
mode, using the standard insert methods.
As an example, you can set Maximum Bars/Line to 6, and still move additional bars into
a line with the Layout tool. Any subsequent lines will contain no more than six bars.
The full number of bars set here will only be displayed if the spacing settings are low
enough to allow the proper display of that many bars.
Note: Dragging more bars into a line than would be displayed when employing the
automatic line break function can result in overlapping notes and symbols!
To move one or more bars of a staff system down into the next staff:
m In Page view, grab the bar with the Layout tool, and drag it down (the mouse icon
changes to a hand with a downwards-pointing thumb), then release the mouse button.
The bar is moved to the next staff system, and the remaining bars in the line are
distributed evenly over the entire width of the page.
You also can move the first bars of a staff upwards into the preceding staff, by dragging
them up with the Layout tool.
Preserving Manual Line Breaks
When you move a bar with the Layout tool, as described above, all manually edited line
breaks in subsequent lines are deleted, and the (automatic) line breaks are recalculated
from that line downwards. If you want to prevent this, perhaps because you only want
to change one detail and keep the other staffs as they were, hold Option while moving
the bars with the Layout tool. Line breaks edited in this way will only affect the two
(directly concerned) staff systems. All other staff systems are unchanged.