User manual

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Mouse input settings on page 156
Inputting glissando lines with the popover on page 258
Inputting vertical lines
You can input vertical lines on existing notes using the Lines panel, including across notes in
multiple voices and on different staves that belong to the same instrument, such as piano or
harp.
NOTE
If you want to input vertical lines to represent arpeggios, you can instead input arpeggio
signs directly.
You can only input one vertical line at a time.
These steps describe inputting with the default mouse input preference Create item at
selection.
You cannot create cross-staff and cross-voice vertical lines if your preference is set to Load
pointer with item.
PROCEDURE
1. In Write mode, select at least one note at the same rhythmic position in each voice to which
you want to add a vertical line.
NOTE
For instruments with multiple staves, such as piano and harp, you can select existing
notes on multiple staves to create cross-staff vertical lines. However, you cannot create
cross-staff vertical lines between different instruments, even if they are held by the same
player.
Vertical lines are added to all notes in the selected voices at the selected rhythmic
position.
2. In the Notations toolbox, click Lines to show the Lines panel.
3. Click the line you want in the Vertical section.
RESULT
The vertical line specied is input to the left of the selected notes. Its length is adjusted
automatically so that it spans the range of all notes in the selected voices/staves at that rhythmic
position.
AFTER COMPLETING THIS TASK
You can change the order of lines when multiple exist at the same rhythmic position and
show vertical lines on the right of notes.
You can add text to lines.
RELATED LINKS
Lines on page 720
Length of lines on page 727
Adding text to lines on page 731
Showing vertical lines on the right/left of notes on page 723
Changing the horizontal order of vertical lines on page 724
Inputting arpeggio signs with the popover on page 257
Write mode
Notations input
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