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Additional note and rest formatting
Cue notes
You can create cue notes by using voices or by converting
individual notes into cue notes.
Setting a voice to display cue notes
1. Open the Score Settings–Staff page and select the
Polyphonic tab.
This is described in the section “Setting up the voices” on page 533.
2. Click in the “Cue” column for the voice, so that a tick
mark appears.
3. Decide how to handle rests for the voice.
You might for example leave “Rests–Show” activated and activate “Re-
duce”. If you do, you will get rests in this voice, but not as many as other-
wise. Empty bars, for example, will not have any rests at all.
4. Close the dialog.
5. Move the notes into the cue voice.
Polyphonic voicing is described in detail on “Polyphonic voicing” on
page 531.
An example of a cue note voice.
A quick example
Let’s say you have a flute part and want some cue notes
for it.
1. Switch on polyphonic voices and activate voice 1 and
voice 2.
2. Set voice 2 to “Auto” stem direction and centered
rests.
3. Set up voice 1 to be a cue voice, with hidden rests
and stems pointing up.
4. Insert the cue notes into voice 1.
Turning individual notes into cue notes
1. Select one or several notes.
2. Double-click one of the notes.
The Set Note Info dialog appears. You can also click the “i” button on the
extended toolbar, or right-click on a note head and select “Properties”
from the context menu to open this dialog.
3. Select Cue from the Type pop-up.
Note type set to Cue.
4. Click Apply.
The settings are applied to the selected note(s).
5. If you like, select other notes and make settings for
them.
When you are done, close the dialog by clicking its close button.
Grace notes
You can turn any note into a grace note. Grace notes are
considered to be notes without lengths. This means that
once a note is turned into a grace note it doesn’t affect the
rest of the score display in any way.
Before and after converting to grace notes. Note that after the conver-
sion, the grace notes no longer “interfere” with the interpretation of the
other notes.
Creating grace notes manually
1. Locate the note for which you want a grace note.
2. Insert one or more new notes just before it.
The note value and exact position of the note isn’t important. However,
the pitch of course is.
“Cue” activated for voice 3.
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Grace notes are always automatically positioned just
before the next note on the staff. If there is no note
after a grace note on the staff, the grace note will be
hidden!