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Additional note and rest formatting
Copying settings between notes
2. Click in the Active column to activate this function for the corresponding element.
3. Click in the Color field to the right to select a color.
When color-printing a score, you get the colors you selected for the notes. When you
are using a black-and-white printer, the notes appear in black (notes that have not
been assigned a color) and different shades of gray (depending on how bright/dark a
color was used for the note).
Copying settings between notes
If you have made various settings in the Set Note Info dialog for a note, and want to
use these settings for other notes as well, there is an easy way to do this:
1. Set up the first note as desired.
This includes the settings in the Set Note Info dialog, but also any note-related
symbols (such as accents, staccato, articulation, etc. – see
“Adding note symbols”
on page 816).
2. In the score, select the note and select “Copy” from the Edit menu.
3. Select the notes to which you want to copy the attributes.
4. Right-click the notes to which you want to copy the attributes, and select “Paste
Attributes” from the context menu.
The selected notes now get the attributes of the first, copied note, but their pitches
and note values remain unchanged.
Handling beaming
Turning beaming on/off
Beaming is enabled/disabled independently for each staff.
1. On the Staff page in the Score Settings dialog, click the Options tab.
2. To turn off beaming, activate No Beams and click Apply.
Even if beaming is deactivated for the staff, you can put some notes under beams, as
described below.
Grouping
When beaming is on, the program automatically groups notes under beams. However,
there are a number of ways to determine how notes are grouped.
Using the Edit Time Signature dialog
The time signature for the score naturally affects grouping. But you can control this
yourself by creating a composite time signature used only for grouping:
1. Open the Edit Time Signature dialog by double-clicking the time signature symbol
for the staff.
2. Set up the numerator with the grouping you desire.
If you for example want eighth notes in two groups of three and one group of two,
enter 3+3+2.
3. Set the denominator, if necessary.