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Additional note and rest formatting
Accidentals and enharmonic shift
Accidentals and enharmonic shift
Making global settings
In the Score Settings dialog, on the Project page (Accidentals subpage), you can find
a number of options for how accidentals are displayed in the score. Once set, these
are valid for all tracks in the project. Proceed as follows:
1. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Project page and select the Accidentals
subpage from the Pages list.
You have the following options:
• Activate the “Courtesy Acc Distance” option and enter a value in the Bars field.
This determines after how many measures courtesy accidentals are shown. If you
set this to “0”, notes outside the scale get accidentals and no courtesy accidentals
are shown.
• Activate one of the following options:
2. In the Outside the Scale area, you can decide how five of the most common
intervals outside the scale are displayed, as sharps or as flats.
Enharmonic shift
If one or several notes are not displayed with the accidentals that you want, you can
perform an Enharmonic Shift operation on them.
1. Select the notes to be shifted.
2. Click the desired option on the extended toolbar.
Option Description
Force Notes outside the scale get accidentals, and accidentals are
repeated even within the same bar.
Force all Every single note in the score gets an accidental.
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If you activate the “Accidentals for Each Note” option in the Score Settings dialog, on
the Project–Notation Style subpage (in the “H.W. Henze Style” category), all notes
are displayed with accidentals (even tied notes).
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If you activate “Use Chord Track for Accidentals”, the chord track is used to determine
the accidentals. For further information on the chord track, see
“Working with the
Chord Functions” on page 542.
Option Description
Use these buttons when you want regular Enharmonic Shifting (select one
option).
Use this button when you want to deactivate Enharmonic Shifting for the
notes.