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Additional note and rest formatting
Coloring notes
You can assign colors to notes using the color pop-up
menu on the toolbar.
1. Simply select the notes for which you wish to use col-
ors, click the Color Scheme Selector field to the right in the
toolbar and pick a color from the pop-up menu.
Only the note heads will be colored. Note that the color will only be visi-
ble once the notes have been deselected.
2. On the far right in the Score Editor toolbar you will find
the Hide Colors button.
If you assigned colors to some or all of the notes in your score, this but-
ton allows you to switch between display of colored or uncolored notes.
This may help you to find selected notes among other colored notes.
If the Preferences dialog (Scores–Colors for Additional
meanings page) you can specify different colors for ele-
ments in the score in order to indicate that they are “spe-
cial” in any way. You can for example chose a color for a
“Moved Graphic” or a “Moved Slur”. These objects will be
colored accordingly when they are moved from their default
positions (see “About moving note symbols” on page 572).
1. Open the Preferences dialog (Scores–Use Colors for
Additional meanings).
2. Click in the Active column to activate this function for
the respective element.
3. Click in the color field to the right to specify the de-
sired color.
Ö The colors will be included when you print the score.
When color-printing a score, you will get the colors you selected for the
notes. When you are using a black-and-white printer, the notes will appear
in black (notes that have not been assigned a color) and different shades
of grey (depending on how bright/dark a color was used for the note).
No Stem Hides the note stem completely
No Flag/Beam Activate this to hide the flags or beams of the selected
note(s).
Bracket Head When this is activated, notes will be displayed with
brackets:
Bracket Head off and on.
X Stem
(Spoken)
When this option is activated for a note, it is displayed
with an x across its stem. This is normally used to indicate
spoken words.
Hide Note Ticking this checkbox will hide the selected note(s).
Stem pop-up
menu
Determines the stem direction, see “Using Flip Stems” on
page 542.
Tie pop-up
menu
Determines the direction of ties. When this is set to “Auto”
(the default setting) the program will choose a tie direction
depending on the stem direction of the tied notes.
Type pop-up
menu
Determines the note type. There are four options:
– Normal. This is how notes usually are displayed.
– Grace. When this is selected, notes will be displayed as
grace notes. This is described in detail on “Grace notes”
on page 553.
– Cue. When this is selected, notes will be displayed as
cue notes (smaller notes, often used as “guide notes” or
optional lines). See “Cue notes” on page 553.
– Graphic. These are special notes, useful for example for
guitar notation (pull-offs) and trills (as “help notes”, indi-
cating which notes to trill between). In both these cases
the “No Stems” option could be useful.
Graphic notes are not included in the “automated cutting”
(see “The Cut Notes tool” on page 551). They are posi-
tioned after the note(s) they “belong to” (as opposed to
grace notes).
Crossed Activate this option, when you want the stem to be
crossed by a slanted line (to indicate that the note is a
grace note).
Grace note
options
These options are available when Grace is selected on
the Type pop-up menu. See “Grace notes” on page 553.
Option Description