User manual

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Tips and Tricks
If you wish you had a faster computer
The note has an accidental when it shouldn’t, or it doesn’t when it should.
Maybe the note is simply of the wrong pitch? Click on it (using the Object Selection
tool) and look at the info line (if this is not shown, see
“The info line” on page 735).
Move it to the correct pitch (see “Editing pitches of individual notes” on page 763). If
this is not the reason, maybe you have the wrong key set? And finally, you can also
use enharmonic shifting (see
“Accidentals and enharmonic shift” on page 793).
Notes are not grouped under beams the way I want it.
Normally the program groups eighth notes, sixteenths, etc. under beams. This can be
deactivated. There is also detailed control of which notes are grouped under a beam.
This is described in the section
“Handling beaming” on page 797.
If you wish you had a faster computer
Here are some tips for those who find some operations slower than they would like:
• Work on a smaller section of the score at a time. Break the project up into parts
and work on those parts individually until the final layout stage.
• Switch on multi-rests as late as possible.
• When working in Edit Mode, set Default Bars Across The Staff to a small value, for
example 2.
• In Edit Mode, resize the window so that only one grand staff at a time is visible.
• Consider upgrading your computer hardware.