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Staff settings
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
• How to make staff settings.
• How to work with staff presets.
Staff settings
Below follows a run-through of all staff settings, more de-
tailed information about the ones already described and
references to other places in the manual for some options.
Making settings
1. Open the Score Settings–Staff page.
2. With the dialog open, make the desired staff active.
Click anywhere in a staff to make it active, or use the up and down arrow
keys to step from staff to staff.
3. Select the desired tab and make whatever settings
you need to do.
The settings for regular staves are found on the Main and Options tab,
the Polyphonic tab contains settings for split systems and polyphonic
voices while the Tablature tab lets you set up tablature scores.
4. When you have made the desired settings, click Apply.
The settings are applied to the active staff.
Ö If the option “Apply closes Property Windows” is acti-
vated in the Preferences dialog (Scores-Editing page),
clicking Apply will also close the dialog.
5. Select another staff, make settings for this and click
Apply.
Repeat this until all staves have the right settings.
6. If you want to close the dialog, click its close box as
usual.
Working with staff presets
You will spend some time making staff settings for your
scores. Staff presets allow you to reuse those settings
whenever you work with a staff similar to one you have
worked on before. A staff preset contains all the settings
on the Score Settings–Staff page, except for the key.
• To store the current settings (including the settings on
the Options tab, see below) click the Store button in the
Presets section of the Staff page.
Enter a name for the preset in the name dialog that appears, and click
OK. The preset will now be available on the Presets pop-up menu (in all
projects).
Use this section to
set up how the dis-
play should be quan-
tized – the displayed
spacing and length of
notes.
This section contains ad-
ditional settings for how
the notes are displayed.
Use this
section to
select keys
and clefs.
Use this section to select and apply
presets, or turn the current settings
into a preset.
This is where you enter the
name for the staff. Normally,
the long name is shown at the
beginning of the score, while
the short name is shown for
the remaining systems.
This is where you specify
the display transpose for
instruments that are not
scored in concert key.
The Staff page has four tabs – here, the Main tab is selected.
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Staff settings can be saved in the track presets. For
more information, see the chapter “Track Presets” on
page 300.