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Additional note and rest formatting
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
• How to control stem direction.
• How to control beaming, and create cross staff beaming.
• How to make detailed adjustments to note appearance.
• How to perform “graphic moving” of notes.
• How to create grace notes.
• How to create tuplets.
Background: Note stems
The direction of stems is governed by five things:
• How notes are grouped under beams.
• Any manual manipulation of beams.
• The Flip Stems function.
• How the note information is set for each note.
• How the Polyphonic tab on the Score Settings–Staff page is
set up (if you use polyphonic voices).
Also, there is a priority system with these steps, as they
are listed above. In other words, if you have adjusted the
beam slant “by hand” (see below), it doesn’t matter if you
previously flipped the stems, or how the note was set up. If
you have flipped the stems it doesn't matter how the notes
or voices were set up, etc.
Setting stem direction
In polyphonic voices
On the Score Settings–Staff page (Polyphonic tab), stem
direction can be set separately for each voice.
This is the stem setting with the lowest priority. It is only
valid if no other settings were made specifically.
Using Flip Stems
Flipping the stem of one or several notes
1. Select the note(s).
2. Click the Flip icon on the extended toolbar.
All the stems in the selection are now flipped. Those that pointed up now
point down and vice versa.
• You can also assign a key command for this.
In the Key Commands dialog on the File menu, the command is called
“Flip” and is found in the Score Functions category.
• You can also right-click a note or a selection of notes
and select the Flip option from the context menu.
Flipping the stems of notes grouped under a beam
1. Select any note in the group.
2. Invoke Flip as described above.
The entire group is now flipped.
Before and after the flip. No matter which note you select, the entire
group is flipped.
!
If you have edited the stem length of a note and then
flip it, the stem will be reset to default length.
!
If you have activated the “Fixed Stems” option on the
Score Settings–Staff page (Options tab, see “Fixed
Stems” on page 530), a lot of the automatic stem
length settings are ignored. However, you can still
edit the stem length and direction of individual notes.
The voice stem settings
!
This will not work if you have adjusted the slanting of
the beam by dragging. If you have, you must first re-
set the beam as described in the section “Stem
length” on page 543.
The Flip icon