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Staff settings
The Options tab
Clicking the Options tab in the dialog brings up another
page with additional settings (which can be made part of a
staff preset just like the other settings). Below follows a
brief description of these, with references to more detailed
explanations.
Switches
System Sizes
This section allows you to set the number of system lines
and to control spacing between the lines:
See “Creating tablature manually” on page 621 for an ex-
ample of how this can be used with tablature.
Score Drum Map
These settings are all described in the chapter “Scoring
for drums” on page 615.
Fixed Stems
If you activate this checkbox, the stems of all notes will
end at the same vertical position. This feature is perhaps
most often used when scoring for drums (see “Setting up
a staff for drum scoring” on page 618).
A drum pattern with Fixed Stem length activated.
The Up and Down parameters determine which position
(relative to the top of the staff) should be used for up and
down stems, respectively. The graphical display helps you
get your settings right.
Note Limits
Use the Low and High fields to specify a note range. In the
active staff, any notes outside this range will be displayed
in a different color. When writing a score for a specific in-
strument, this makes it easy to find notes that are outside
of this instrument’s note range.
Ö If the option “Hide Notes beyond Limits” is activated in
the Preferences dialog (Scores-Editing page), any notes
outside the Note Limits range will be hidden.
The Polyphonic and Tablature tabs
These are described in the chapters “Polyphonic voicing”
on page 531 and “Creating tablature” on page 619, re-
spectively. For now, just note that the Polyphonic tab con-
tains the Staff Mode pop-up, which determines whether
the staff should be a single system, a split (piano) staff or
use polyphonic voices.
Option Description
Flat Beams Activate this when you want the beams over notes to be
flat (as opposed to slanted). See “Beam appearance and
slant settings” on page 550.
No Beams Activate this when you don’t want any beaming at all on
the staff (for example for vocal scoring). See “Turning be-
aming on/off” on page 547.
Beam
Subgroups
Activate this when you want sixteenth notes displayed
under a beam to be divided into two groups of eight
notes. See “Handling beam groups” on page 550.
16th
Subgroups
Use this when you want even smaller subgroups of six-
teenth notes. This setting has no effect if Beam Sub-
groups is deactivated.
Option Description
System Lines The number of lines in a system. For regular scoring, this
should be set to 5.
Add Space Allows you to increase or decrease the space between
the lines in a system.
Size Allows you to set a size for the systems, as a percentage
(with 100% being the default value). In effect, this setting
scales the score vertically.
Option Description