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Designing your score: additional techniques
2. If you wish the bar line to be shown with “brackets”,
activate the Brackets checkbox.
This is only relevant for repeat signs.
3. Click on the desired bar line type.
The dialog closes and the bar line type is changed.
4. If you do not want to display bar lines at the beginning
of the parts, open the Score Settings–Project page, on
the Notation Style subpage (Bar Lines category) and acti-
vate the option “Hide First Bar line in Parts”.
Ö The bar line types are part of the Project layer – any
changes you make will be reflected in all layouts.
Creating upbeats
By using the Pickup Bar feature
With this method, the upbeat actually contains exactly the
number of beats displayed. That is, if you have an upbeat
of one beat, your project starts with one bar in 1/4 time.
1. Change the time signature of the first bar to the length
of the upbeat.
2. Insert a time signature of the correct kind (the time sig-
nature used throughout the project) in the second bar.
To insert a time signature, select it in the “Time Sign” section in the sym-
bol inspector and click in the Score with the Pencil tool.
3. Enter the notes in the upbeat into the first bar.
The first bar before any adjustments.
4. Double-click the time signature for the upbeat bar.
The Edit Time Signature dialog appears.
5. Activate the option “Pickup Bar” and click OK.
Now, the time signature of the first bar takes on the look of
the second bar’s signature, while the time signature in the
second bar is hidden:
6. If you use bar numbers, double-click on the first bar
number and enter an offset of -1.
7. Adjust the display of bar numbers and hide the “0” in
the first measure.
By hiding rests
With this method, the first bar will actually have the same
time signature as the following bars – it will only look like
an upbeat bar:
1. Enter the notes in the upbeat into the first bar.
The first bar before any adjustments.
2. Hide the rests that precede the notes.
3. Drag the bar line between measure one and two to ad-
just the width of the bar.
After hiding the rest and dragging the bar line.
4. If you like, move the notes in the upbeat measure, us-
ing the Layout tool.