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Working with symbols
• If you right-click on an inserted keyboard symbol and
select “Properties” from the context menu, a dialog opens
allowing you to specify further properties for the symbol.
You can also double-click on an inserted keyboard symbol to open this
dialog.
Adding guitar chord symbols
A fretboard symbol of a guitar chord can be inserted any-
where in the score.
Guitar symbols are found on the “Guitar Symbols” tab and
the “Other” tab in the symbol Inspector.
• The Guitar Symbols tab contains all Guitar symbols of
the current guitar library, see “Using the guitar library” on
page 567. If the symbol you want to insert is among these,
select it and insert it as you would any other symbol, see
above.
To insert a guitar symbol not present in the guitar library,
proceed as follows:
1. Open the “Other” tab.
2. Click (or double-click) on the guitar chord symbol, so
that the Pencil tool is selected.
3. Click in the score, at the position where you want the
symbol to appear.
The Guitar Symbol dialog appears.
• To put a black dot on any fret and string, click on it.
To remove it, click again.
• To input a symbol just above the string, outside the fret-
board, click there.
Consecutive clicks allow you to select between a ring (open string), a
cross (don’t play this string) and no symbol.
• To add a capodaster number, click to the left of the
symbol.
Consecutive clicks allow you to step through the possibilities.
• You can also add a capodaster symbol (a line over the
strings), by setting the “Capo String” parameter to a value
higher than 0.
By adjusting the Capo End and Start values, you can create capodaster
symbols that span fewer strings.
• Use the “Size” value field to adjust the size of the chord
symbol.
• If you want the symbol to be horizontal, activate the
“Horizontal” checkbox.
• If you want to display more or fewer frets than the de-
fault six, change the “Frets” value.
4. Click Apply.
The guitar symbol appears in the score.
• Clicking the Insert Notes button will insert the actual
notes in the chord into the score.
You can also right-click and select “Insert Notes” from the context menu
that appears.
Option Description
Size Governs the width of the keys.
Start Note This is the leftmost note in the keyboard symbol.
Show Note
Names
When this is activated, each C key is displayed with note
name and octave (C1, C2, etc.).
White/Black
Keys transparent
Activate these if you want the white and/or black keys to
be transparent.