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Additional note and rest formatting
Coloring notes
Coloring notes
You can assign colors to notes using the Event Colors pop-up menu on the toolbar.
Proceed as follows:
1. Simply select the notes for which you want to use colors, open the Event Colors
pop-up menu on the toolbar and pick a color.
Only the note heads are colored. Note that the color is only visible once the notes
have been deselected.
2. On the far right in the Score Editor toolbar you can find the Hide Colors button.
If you assigned colors to some or all of the notes in your score, this button allows
you to switch between display of colored or uncolored notes. This may help you to
find selected notes among other colored notes.
If the Preferences dialog (Scores–Colors for Additional Meanings page) you can
specify different colors for elements in the score in order to indicate that they are
“special” in any way. You can for example choose a color for a “Moved Graphic” or a
“Moved Slur”. These objects are colored accordingly when they are moved from their
default positions (see
“Moving note symbols” on page 830).
1. Open the Preferences dialog (Scores–Colors for Additional Meanings).
Hide Note Activating this checkbox hides the selected notes.
Stem Determines the stem direction, see “Using Flip Stems” on page 791.
Tie Determines the direction of ties. When this is set to “Auto”, the
program chooses a tie direction depending on the stem direction of
the tied notes.
Type Determines the note type. There are four options:
– Normal. This is how notes usually are displayed.
– Grace. When this is selected, notes are displayed as grace notes.
This is described in detail on
“Grace notes” on page 807.
– Cue. When this is selected, notes are displayed as cue notes
(smaller notes, often used as “guide notes” or optional lines). See
“Cue notes” on page 806 for details.
– Graphic. These are special notes, useful for example for guitar
notation (pull-offs) and trills (as “help notes”, indicating which notes
to trill between). In both these cases the “No Stems” option could be
useful.
Graphic notes are not included in the “automated cutting” (see “The
Cut Notes tool” on page 804). They are positioned after the notes
they “belong to” (as opposed to grace notes).
Crossed Activate this option, when you want the stem to be crossed by a
slanted line (to indicate that the note is a grace note).
Grace note options These options are available when Grace is selected on the Type pop-
up menu, see
“Grace notes” on page 807.
Option Description