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Additional note and rest formatting
2. Set the Quantize pop-up menu to an appropriate value.
As usual, this determines where you will be able to click.
3. Click in the bar containing the note(s) you want to cut
manually, at the position you want them cut. If you work
with polyphonic voicing, select the desired voice first.
This inserts a cutflag event in the bar at the position you clicked. If you
hold down [Alt]/[Option], a cutflag event is inserted for all voices in a
polyphonic staff.
The following rules apply to cutflag events:
• If a bar contains a cutflag event, the automatic cutting mecha-
nism is disabled within that bar.
• All notes or rests that start before and end after a cutflag event
will be cut at the position of the event.
• To display cutflag events, make sure that “Cutflag” is activated
on the filter bar.
• To remove a cutflag event, either click again with the Cut Notes
tool at the same position, or select it and press [Backspace] or
[Delete].
Other options for tied notes
Tie direction
As described in the section “Tie pop-up menu” on page
546, you can set the direction of the tie manually in the
Set Note Info dialog.
Flat ties
If you prefer ties to be displayed as flat lines, rather than
regular “curved” ties, activate the option “Flat Ties” in the
“H.W. Henze Style” category on the Score Settings–
Project page (Notation Style subpage).
Graphic moving of notes
There might be instances where the “graphical” order of
the notes isn’t the one you want. In this case you can
move the note without affecting the score or playback in
any way. There are two ways to do this:
By using the Layout tool
1. Select the Layout tool.
2. Click on the note and drag it right or left.
Movement is restricted to horizontally only.
Before and after changing the “graphical order” of notes.
By using the computer keyboard
You can assign key commands for moving objects graph-
ically. In the Key Commands dialog on the File menu, the
commands are found under the Nudge category and
called Graphical Left, Right, Bottom and Top (only the
Graphical Left and Right commands apply to notes).
After assigning key commands, you select the note(s) you
want to move and press the assigned keys to adjust their
graphical position.
A half note, placed at 2.1.3. This is by default cut at 2.3.1 (the
middle of the bar). When you click at the position 2.2.1, a cutflag
event is inserted.
As a result, the regular cutting mechanism is disabled and the note is
cut at the position you clicked instead.