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Additional note and rest formatting
Copying settings between notes
If you have made various settings in the Set Note Info dia-
log for a note, and want to use these settings for other
notes as well, there is an easy way to do this:
1. Set up the first note as desired.
This includes the settings in the Set Note Info dialog, but also any note-
related symbols (such as accents, staccato, articulation, etc. – see “Ad-
ding note symbols” on page 562).
2. In the score, select the note and select “Copy” from
the Edit menu.
3. Select the notes to which you want to copy the at-
tributes.
4. Right-click the notes to which you want to copy the at-
tributes, and select “Paste Note Attributes” from the con-
text menu.
The selected notes will now get the attributes of the first, copied note,
but their pitches and note values will remain unchanged.
Handling beaming
Turning beaming on/off
Beaming is enabled/disabled independently for each staff.
1. Click the Options tab.
2. To turn off beaming, activate No Beams and click Apply.
Even if beaming is deactivated for the staff, you can put
some notes under beams, as described below.
Grouping
When beaming is on, the program automatically groups
notes under beams. However, there are a number of ways
to determine how notes are grouped.
Using the Edit Time Signature dialog
The time signature for the score naturally affects grouping.
But you can control this yourself by creating a composite
time signature used only for grouping:
1. Open the Edit Time Signature dialog by double-click-
ing the time signature symbol for the staff.
2. Set up the numerator with the grouping you desire.
If you for example want eighth notes in two groups of three and one
group of two, enter 3+3+2.
3. Set the denominator, if necessary.
4. Activate “For Grouping Only”.
The time signature dialog with “For Grouping Only” activated.
5. Click OK.
Regular grouping of a number of eighth notes or smaller
(“Beam”)
If the grouping the program assigns isn’t the one you
want, you can put any selection of eighth notes or smaller
under a beam:
1. Select at least two notes, where you want the beam to
begin and end.
You can also select notes in between these two if you wish, it doesn’t
matter.
2. Click the Group Notes icon on the extended toolbar or
right-click on one of the notes to be grouped and select
“Beam” from the “Group/Ungroup” submenu of the con-
text menu.
The Group Notes icon
Before and after grouping.
• Double-clicking on the “Grouping” text opens the
Grouping dialog, allowing you to adjust the “note value”
for the symbols.
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Please note that the “For Grouping Only” setting only
affects the way the numerator is divided. Any changes
you make to the “sum” of the numerator number or the
denominator will result in a change of actual time sig-
nature in the project. If you need a grouping which
can’t be entered in the current time signature, you will
have to group notes manually, see below.