User Manual

QUICKSCRIBE EDITOR
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Text style
These options specify the default font, size, style,
and vertical positioning of chord symbols.
Tab key advances
The options for Tab are to advance in one of three
ways:
■ To the next beat or the next note, whichever
comes first
■ To the next beat
■ To the next note
Apply To Score
The Apply To Score button applies changes made in
the Chord Symbol preferences to the current
project’s QuickScribe score.
Setting preferences from existing chord symbol
The Commands window (Setup menu) includes a
Use Chord Symbol Settings as Prefs command. If
you select a chord symbol and invoke this
command, the font, size, style and vertical offset
settings for the selected chord symbol are copied
into the Chord Symbol preferences for use by all
new chord symbols.
☛ This command is available only when you
have a single chord symbol selected.
Setting preferences on-the-fly
Hold down the Control/Win key while dragging a
chord symbol to set the resulting vertical offset of
the chord symbol in the Chord Symbol
preferences, which will be used by all new chord
symbols.
INSERTING A STAFF BRACE OR BRACKET
The Staff Brace and Bracket tools in the
QuickScribe Editor Tool Palette (Figure 43-12 on
page 471) allow you to add and remove staff braces
and brackets as desired to a staff system. Each staff
can display—or be grouped by—one brace, one
bracket or both. Each staff (track) remembers its
brace/bracket status when you show or hide it. It
might be useful to think of staff braces and brackets
as an attribute of each staff that can be toggled on
or off, rather than thinking of the brace or bracket
as an object. With this in mind, below is a summary
of how to add and remove brackets and braces:
THE DYNAMICS PALETTE
To open the QuickScribe Dynamics Palette
(Figure 43-1 on page 458), choose it from the
QuickScribe window mini-menu. This palette
allows you to insert standard dynamic symbols,
including hairpin crescendos and decrescendos.
Dynamic symbol placement
Dynamic symbols are associated with the nearest
staff (track). If you show and hide the track, the
dynamic symbol will show and hide with its track.
When you insert or move a dynamic symbol, make
sure it is closest to the track and measure to which
it applies. In regards to time, dynamic symbols are
associated with and remain at the measure and
time location at which you place them, except as
noted in the next section when moving them
together with notes.
To do this: Do this:
To add a brace or bracket to a
single staff or grand staff
Click the staff with the Brace
or Bracket tool.
To remove a brace or bracket
from a single staff or grand staff
Click the staff with the Brace
or Bracket tool.
To add a brace or bracket to
several adjacent staves
Drag over them with the Brace
or Bracket tool.
To remove a brace or bracket
from several adjacent staves
Drag over them with the Brace
or Bracket tool.