User manual

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Tips and Tricks
Overview
This chapter provides useful information about editing techniques and answers to a
number of questions that might arise when you use the Score Editor. For more
information about the functions referred to, please use the index and check the
previous chapters.
Useful editing techniques
Use this section to find out more about some editing techniques that help you to use
the score functions more efficiently.
Moving a note without transposing it
If you hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] while moving a note (or several notes), only
horizontal movements are possible, so that you do not have to worry about the notes
being transposed. You can also set up a key command for this. This is done in the Key
Commands dialog (Nudge category).
Moving and spacing several staves
If you have a number of staves that you want displayed with an equal distance (for
example, all strings of a grand staff in a full orchestra score), this can be done using
the Position Info window:
1. Open the Preferences (Scores–Editing page) and deactivate the “Global staff
Spacing with [Alt Gr]/[Option]-[Command]” option.
2. In the score, select the staves you want to set to an equal distance.
3. Open the Position Info window by clicking on the ruler.
4. Use the To Previous Staff or To Next Staff settings to specify the desired distance
between the staves.
All selected staves are spaced according to your settings.
• If you do this when the “Global staff Spacing with [Alt Gr]/[Option]-[Command]”
option is activated, all staves in the score are affected.
Polyphonic voicing
If you are working on a full score with more than one instrument in one staff (2 flutes,
2 trumpets, etc.), you should use polyphonic voices. And even if both instruments play
the same notes, you should insert notes for both instruments (you can mute the notes
of the second voice, if playback is an issue). If you do this, it is much easier to extract
single parts later by using the “Extract Voices” command.