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Working with symbols
Additional symbols
If you click on the “Select Symbol” button and then into the
score, the “Select Symbol” dialog opens. Here you can
chose note heads, accidentals and rests that work only as
drawing elements, i.e. they do not insert any note data into
the track. They do not affect MIDI playback! You can set the
desired symbol font size directly in the Font Size field.
The “Layout” tab
Rehearsal marks
These come in two flavors, as numbers and as letters.
When you place the first of these in the score, it will be la-
belled 1 or A (depending which you choose in the tab),
the second will then automatically be labelled 2 or B, the
next 3 or C etc. If you delete one, the labelling of the oth-
ers will be shifted so that they always make up a complete
series of numbers/letters.
• You can select a font and size for rehearsal marks in the
“Text Settings” subpage of the Score Settings–Project
page.
This dialog also allows you to add a box or an oval around the rehearsal
mark.
• Rehearsal marks can be added automatically, at the
start position of each Marker in the project.
This is done using the “Marker track to Form” function.
Da Capo and Dal Segno symbols
The “D.C.”, “D.S.” and “Fine” symbols provide a quick way
to insert some common play directions into the score. The
symbols are text symbols – you can adjust which font
should be used in the “Text Settings” subpage of the
Score Settings–Project page, see “Settings for other fixed
text elements” on page 593.
• To have these symbols actually affect playback, insert
them from the Project tab and use the Arranger mode.
See “Scores and the Arranger mode” on page 624.
Endings
There are two types of endings, closed (“1”) and open
(“2”). Both can be stretched to any length or height by
dragging the handles. You can also double-click or right-
click on the existing number and enter any text you like.
Endings are available both in the Layout tab (for the layout
layer), the Project tab (for the project layer) and the Line/
Trill tab (for the note layer). Which one to choose depends
on the score; while it’s handy to insert endings once and
for all as Project symbols, this won’t allow you to make in-
dividual adjustments for the different parts.
Tempo
This always shows the current tempo according to the
tempo track. In other words, to make this symbol display a
certain tempo, insert the value into the tempo track.
Normally this symbol shows the number of beats (quarter
notes) per minute, but if you double-click or right-click on
it, a menu appears that allows you to select any note value.
The number then changes accordingly.