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418 Chapter 15 Score Editor
For Time Signatures/Barlines
Hide Barlines
This option allows you to hide all barlines, which can be useful for educational material,
gregorian plain chant notation, and other special situations.
Only automatically displayed barlines are hidden, so it’s still possible to insert barlines
from the Part box, including the “regular” bar line, which will be displayed and printed.
Octave Symbols
These settings enable you to edit the text string and text format of the different octave
symbols.
Extended Layout Parameters
This is where you define a number of display settings for the whole song, such as; staff
line thickness, stem length, distance between notes and ties, or notes and dots, and so
on.
To open this window, select Layout > Extended Layout Parameters.
The first eight parameters determine the line thickness of the following objects: stave
lines, stems, ledger lines, bar lines, repeat and end lines, tuplet brackets, text boxes (for
boxed Text Styles), and crescendi/decrescendi (this last parameter also affects line
objects and arrows).
Bar Start Spacing/Bar End Spacing changes the relative distance between the first and
last note of a bar, and the preceding or subsequent bar line. Please note: Changing the
default settings of these parameters only makes sense if rather extreme settings have
been chosen for the general Spacing parameters in the Global Format window.
Dot/Note Distance determines the distance between the note heads and dots, for
dotted notes. Dot/Dot Distance refers to double dotted notes.
Acc./Note Distance allows you to globally alter the horizontal distance of accidentals
from the corresponding note heads. The default setting should only be changed if very
small values are used for the spacing parameters, which results in a tiny distance
between notes. This global setting can also be combined with the local Accidental
Distance parameter of individual notes, in the Note Attributes (see “Note Attributes” on
page 398) window.
Acc./Acc. Distance allows you to globally alter the horizontal distance between several
accidentals, in chords.
Stem length is the default setting for stem length.
Hor. Tie Position and Vert. Tie Position determine the distances between note heads and
related ties (which are displayed automatically). There is also a parameter for Tie
Thickness as well as Slur Thickness.