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By default, the layout currently open in the music area is selected when you open the dialog.
You can select other layouts by using the selection options in the action bar, Shift -clicking
adjacent layouts, and Ctrl/Cmd -clicking individual layouts.
3. Click Bar Numbers in the page list.
4. In the Horizontal Position subsection, choose one of the following options for Horizontal
position:
Centered on barline
Centered on bar
5. Click Apply, then Close.
RESULT
The horizontal position of bar numbers is changed in the selected layouts.
Centered on barline shows bar numbers above barlines, at the top left of the bar.
Centered on bar shows bar numbers above the staff, in the middle of the bar.
RELATED LINKS
Showing bar numbers above specic staves on page 504
Showing bar numbers above specic staves
You can change the staves above which bar numbers appear, which allows you to show bar
numbers at multiple vertical positions in each system. For example, in large orchestral scores,
you might show bar numbers both at the top of the system and above the string section.
PROCEDURE
1. Press Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-L to open Layout Options.
2. In the Layouts list, select the layouts in which you want to change the vertical position of bar
numbers.
By default, the layout currently open in the music area is selected when you open the dialog.
You can select other layouts by using the selection options in the action bar, Shift -clicking
adjacent layouts, and Ctrl/Cmd -clicking individual layouts.
3. Click Bar Numbers in the page list.
4. In the Placement subsection, activate the checkbox for each player in the Show above
specic players list above whose top staff you want to show bar numbers.
5. Click Apply, then Close.
RESULT
The vertical positions of bar numbers are changed in the selected layouts. For players holding
multiple instruments, bar numbers appear above their top instrument staff.
NOTE
You can change the distances between bar numbers and the staff/other objects and your vertical
spacing settings for the gaps between staves in order to accommodate bar numbers shown
between staves.
RELATED LINKS
Changing the default staff/system spacing on page 334
Per-layout vertical spacing options on page 364
Moving instruments on page 114
Bar numbers
Positions of bar numbers
504
Dorico SE 3.1.10