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Working with symbols
• To remove a symbol from the Favourites tab, select “Re-
move from Favourites” from the context menu or hold
down [Alt]/[Option] and click on it.
Important! – Symbols, staves and
voices
Most symbols belong to a staff when inserted. Only note
symbols, slurs and ties are an exception. They belong to
notes and therefore to voices.
It is extremely important that the correct staff is active
when you insert a symbol (if you are editing multiple
staves, of course).
If you for example insert a symbol with the wrong staff ac-
tive, the symbol might later “disappear”, simply because you
edit another configuration of tracks (the track you actually
inserted the symbol on might not be opened for editing).
The same is true for note symbols and their relation to
voices. Make sure the correct voice is active when insert-
ing symbols or they might wind up at the wrong position,
fermatas may be turned upside down etc.
Layout symbols work slightly differently. Instead of belong-
ing to a certain staff or voice, they belong to a layout.
Since different track combinations use different layouts,
this means that if you insert a layout symbol in the score
when you are editing two tracks (for example a trumpet
and a saxophone part), it will not be there when you view
each track by itself in the Score Editor. If you want the
same symbols to appear in other layouts as well, you can
copy the form of one layout to another. If you want a sym-
bol to appear in all layouts, use the Project tab.
Adding symbols to the score
Making space and handling margins
• If you find there isn’t enough space between staves to add sym-
bols (like for example text), see “Dragging staves” on page 610
for info on how to separate the staves.
• If you find the score looks crammed after adding symbols,
check out the section “Auto Layout” on page 612.
About the Pencil tool
Unlike in the other MIDI editors, there is no Pencil tool
among the tools on the Score Editor toolbar. Instead, the
Pencil tool is “automatically” selected when you insert
symbols. The following applies:
• Normally, the Pencil tool is automatically selected when
you click on a symbol in the Inspector.
• However, if the option “Double-click Symbol to get
Pencil tool” is activated in the Preferences–Scores, you
need to double-click the symbol to get the Pencil tool.
• On the same page of the Preferences dialog, you will
find an option called “Display Arrow tool after Inserting
Symbol”. When this is activated, the Object Selection
(“Arrow”) tool is automatically selected after you have in-
serted a symbol.
If you want to insert a lot of symbols with the Pencil tool, you may want to
deactivate this option.
Adding note symbols
Adding a symbol to one note
1. Open the Note Symbols tab in the Inspector.
2. Click (or double-click) on the desired symbol in the
tab.
As mentioned above, the “Double-click Symbol to get Pencil tool” prefer-
ence determines whether you need to double-click. In either case, the
Pencil tool is selected.
!
Symbols you add outside the margins will not be
printed!