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Additional note and rest formatting
Accidentals and enharmonic shift
Making global settings
On the Score Settings–Project page (Accidentals sub-
page), you will find a number of options for how acciden-
tals are displayed in the score. Once set, these are valid
for all tracks in the project. Proceed as follows:
1. Open the Score Settings–Project page and select the
Accidentals subpage from the list displayed on the left.
The Accidentals subpage on the Score Settings–Project page.
Now, you can use one of the following possibilities:
• Activate the option “Courtesy Acc Distance” and enter
a value in the bars field.
This determines after how many measures courtesy accidentals should
be shown. If you set this to “0”, notes outside the scale get accidentals
and no courtesy accidentals are shown.
• Activate one of the following options by clicking on the
graphics:
2. With the radio buttons to the right, you can decide
how five of the most common intervals outside the scale
should be displayed, as sharps or as flats.
Enharmonic shift
If one or several notes are not displayed with the acciden-
tals you wish, you can perform an Enharmonic Shift on
them.
1. Select the notes to be shifted.
2. Click the desired option on the extended toolbar.
3. If the enharmonic shift should be repeated in the whole
bar, activate the option “Enharmonic shift for entire bar” in
the Score Settings–Project page, Accidentals subpage.
Option Description
Force Notes outside the scale get accidentals and accidentals
are repeated even within the same measure.
Force all Every single note in the score gets an accidental.
!
When you activate the option “Accidentals for Each
Note” in the Notation Style subpage of the Score
Settings–Project page (in the “H.W. Henze Style”
category), all notes will be displayed with accidentals
(even tied notes).
Option Description
Use these buttons when you want regular Enharmonic
Shifting (select one option).
Use this button when you want to deactivate Enharmonic
Shifting for the note(s).
Use this button when you want to hide the accidental
completely.
Use this button when you want to create a “help acciden-
tal” for the selected note(s) only. For more info see the
global Help option (on the Score Settings–Projects–
Accidentals subpage) described above.
Use this button when you want to enclose the accidental
in parentheses. To remove these, select “off”.