User guide

826 Chapter 33 Working With Notation
Octave Symbol Parameters
These settings enable you to edit the text string (and text formatting) of the different
octave symbols. Simply click on the appropriate field, and type in the desired text. Click
the Choose button to select a different font, font face, or size.
Layout
The Layout tab is where you can define a number of display settings for the whole
project, such as staff line thickness, stem length, distance between notes and ties, or
notes and dots, and so on.
To open the Layout project settings, do one of the following:
m Choose File > Project Settings > Score in the main menu bar (or use the Open Score
Project Settings key command), then click the Layout tab (if is not already displayed).
m Click the Settings button in the Arrange Toolbar, choose Score from the menu, then
click the Layout tab.
m Choose Layout > Extended Layout Parameters.
m Use the Settings: Extended Layout key command.
Line Thickness Parameters
The first eight parameters determine the line thickness of the following objects: staff
lines, stems, ledger lines, bar lines, repeat and end lines, tuplet brackets, text boxes (for
boxed text styles), and crescendi/decrescendi (this last parameter also affects line
objects and arrows).