User manual

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Entering and editing notes
Inserting and editing clefs, keys, or time signatures
Inserting a symbol on all staves
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] when you insert a symbol with the Draw tool, it is
inserted at this position on all staves currently being edited in the Score Editor.
• Time signature changes are always inserted on all tracks in the score.
Or rather, they are inserted on the signature track, which affects all tracks.
• For key changes, Display Transpose is taken into account.
This allows you to set all staves to a new key and the staves set to Display
Transpose still show the correct key after the key change.
Ö If some of the staves are bracketed (straight brackets only, as set up in the Score
Settings dialog on the Layout page, see
“Adding brackets and braces” on page 878),
inserting a symbol for one of these staves inserts it for all other staves within the
bracket. Staves outside the bracket are not affected.
Editing clefs, keys, and time signatures
If you double-click on a symbol, a dialog appears allowing you to change the settings
for it.
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] when double-clicking, all symbols at the same position
are changed accordingly. With key signatures, the Display Transpose value is taken
into account as described above.
• In the Score Settings dialog on the Project page (Notation Style subpage), you
can find several options for how clef, key, and time signature changes are
displayed.
You can also adjust the automatic spacing between these symbols in the
Spacings subpage. See the dialog help for details.
Moving clefs
Clefs inserted into the score have an effect on how notes are displayed. If you for
example insert a bass clef in the middle of a treble staff, the staff switches to show
bass pitches. Therefore it is very important where you insert the clef.
If you want to move the clef graphically, without disturbing the relation between the
clef and the notes, proceed as follows:
1. Select the Layout tool on the toolbar or context menu.
Note that this tool is available in Page Mode only.
2. Click on the clef and drag it to the desired position.
Now the clef is moved, but the score is still interpreted as if it remained in its
original position.
Ö When you insert a clef change in the score, you can decide whether this has the same
size as the first (default) clef symbol or whether it is displayed with a smaller symbol.
Simply right-click the symbol and activate or deactivate “Display Clef Changes as
Small Symbols”.
Ö When “Warnings for new Clefs at Line Breaks” is activated on the Clef context menu
and you inserted a clef change at a line break in the score, the Clef change symbol is
inserted in the last bar before the staff break. When this is deactivated, the symbol is
inserted in the first bar of the next staff line.