User manual

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Additional note and rest formatting
Handling beaming
Cross-staff beaming
To create a beam that extends from one staff to another, proceed as follows:
1. Set up a split or polyphonic voicing system or open the Score Editor with more
than one track.
2. Set up a beam of notes (using the group command) and adjust their pitches so
that they are correct even though some of the notes are on the wrong staff.
Use the info line to edit the pitches if they are very low or high.
3. Select the notes that should appear on the other staff.
4. Select “Display in Staff” from the context menu for a selected note and select a
staff from the submenu.
The notes are “graphically” moved to the selected system, but keep their actual pitch.
Before and after moving a note to the lower staff
5. If needed, adjust the beam appearance (see “Manual adjustment of beams” on
page 802).
Cross-staff beaming with the beam in the middle
This does not move the affected notes to another track, but merely displays them as if
they belonged to the other staff.
Handling beam groups
There are two settings for groups under a beam, Beam Subgroups and 16th
Subgroups, both found on the Options tab on the Staff page of the Score Settings
dialog. If “Beam Subgroups” is activated, the program displays subgroups after four
sixteenth notes under a beam. If you also activate “16th Subgroups”, subgroups
appear after only two sixteenths.
Beam Subgroups off
Beam Subgroups on
On with 16th Subgroups activated