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Designing your score: additional techniques
Moving bar lines
Moving bar lines on all staves
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] when dragging a bar line, all bar lines below the one
you drag are moved accordingly.
Moving a single bar line separately
If you hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] while dragging a bar line, the widths of the
surrounding bars are not affected.
Making an indent on one line
• To create an indent, simply drag the first or last bar line on a staff.
The sizes of all measures are adjusted proportionally.
Before and after dragging the first bar line on the first staff
Making indents on several lines
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the first or last bar line in a system, all
following systems get the same indent. If you want all lines on all pages to be modified
in the same way, hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the appropriate bar line on the first
system of the score.
The last bar line in the score
Cubase attempts to move the last bar line and space the bars on the last line in a
sensible way. But you can change this manually by dragging the last bar line, if you
like. To change the type of the last bar line, double-click it and select the desired type.
Resetting bar spacing
To reset the bar spacing to standard values for several lines, proceed as follows:
1. Locate the first line for which you want to reset the bar spacing, and make one staff
in that system active.
2. Select “Number of Bars” from the Advanced Layout submenu on the Scores
menu.
3. Specify the number of bars that you already have on the line.
4. Click on “This Staff”.
Clicking “All Staves” resets the lines of all staves in the score, see “Using the
Number of Bars dialog” on page 873.
5. Close the dialog.
The bar spacing is reset for the currently selected staff and all following staves.