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Designing your score: additional techniques
Moving one staff only
You may wish to move one staff without affecting any
other staff in any way:
1. Hold down [Ctrl]/[Command].
2. Drag any staff as described above.
Moving staves between pages
By using the “Move to Next/Previous Page” commands on
the Staff context menu, you can quickly edit the page
breaks:
Moving staves to the next page
1. Locate the staff you want to move to the top of the next
page, and make it the active staff.
This can be any staff except the first staff on the page.
2. Right-click on the blue rectangle to the left of the staff,
and select “Move to Next Page” from the Staff context
menu.
The active staff (and any following staves on the page) are moved to the
next page.
Moving staves to the previous page
1. Make the staff at the top of the page the active staff.
If any other staff is active, the option “Move to Previous Page” cannot be
used. Also, the function will not work for the first staff on the first page.
2. Right-click on the blue rectangle to the left of the staff,
and select “Move to Previous Page” from the Staff context
menu.
The active staff, and as many of the following staves as there are room
for, are moved to the previous page. If the previous page is “full” already,
nothing will happen.
Adding brackets and braces
Brackets and braces (curly brackets) are added on the
Score Settings–Layout page. The settings you make are
specific for the current layout, i.e. you can have different
brackets or braces set up for different track configurations.
1. On the Scores menu, select “Settings...” and in the di-
alog that appears, open the Layout page.
In the track list, you will find columns for braces ( { ) and brackets ( [ ).
2. Click in one of the columns and drag downwards in
the list to encompass the desired staves.
The column indicates graphically which staves will be encompassed by
the brace or bracket.
3. Close the dialog.
The score is displayed with brackets or braces according to the settings
you made.
• You can edit brackets and braces in the dialog by drag-
ging the ends of the indicator in the list.
• To remove a bracket or brace, click on its indicator in
the list.
Ö You can automatically get broken bar lines based on
the brackets you have added – see “Breaking bar lines”
on page 614.
Ö If the option “Show Braces in Edit Mode” is activated
in the Preferences dialog (Scores-Editing page), brackets
and braces are shown in Edit Mode as well.
Click at the first staff for which you want a bracket or brace…
…and drag downwards in the list to enclose the desired staves.