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Designing your score: additional techniques

Auto Layout

This item on the Scores menu brings up a dialog with several options. Activating one

of these makes the program “go through” the score and make adjustments to

measure widths, staff distances, etc. Exactly which parts and properties of the score

are affected depends on which option you activate/deactivate.

Ö You can also open the Auto Layout dialog by clicking the Auto Layout button on the

extended toolbar.

Move Bars

This option looks at the currently active grand staff, and attempts to adjust the

measure widths, so that all notes and symbols get as much room as possible. The

number of bars on the staff is not affected.

• You can perform this function for several staves in one go, by dragging a selection

rectangle over their left edges, and then selecting Move Bars.

Move Staves

This changes the measure width (as with Move Bars) but also the vertical staff

distance, of the active staff and all following staves.

Spread Page

This corrects the vertical layout of the staves on the current page, so that they “fit onto

the page”. In other words, this removes white space at the bottom of the page.

The automatic layout adjustments are done just as if you yourself had made them

manually. This means that if there is something you do not like, you can always change

it manually, as described above.