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Designing your score: additional techniques
Breaking bar lines
Sometimes you may not want a bar line to stretch all the
way across a grand staff. If this is the case, you have the
possibility to “break it”.
Manually
Breaking bar lines in one grand staff
1. Select the Erase tool.
2. Click on a bar line connecting the two staves.
All bar lines between these two staves (except the first and last) are bro-
ken. To break the first or last bar line in a grand staff, you need to click di-
rectly on these.
Before and after splitting the bar lines between two staves.
Breaking bar lines in several grand staves
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] and click on a bar line as
described above, the corresponding bar lines are broken
in all following grand staves.
Re-connecting broken bar lines
If you have broken the bar lines, you can use the Glue tool
to connect them again.
1. Select the Glue tool.
2. Click on one of the bar lines in the staff above the bro-
ken bar lines.
All bar lines between these staves in this grand staff are connected.
• To re-connect bar lines in several grand staves, hold
down [Alt]/[Option] and click with the Glue tool.
The bar lines between the corresponding staves are connected in all fol-
lowing grand staves.
Automatically
If you have added brackets for some staves on the Score
Settings–Layout page (see “Adding brackets and braces”
on page 611), you can have bar lines broken between
each bracketed “section”, giving a clearer indication of
which staves belong together:
1. Open the Score Settings dialog from the Score menu
and, on the Project page, select the “Notation Style” sub-
page.
2. In the Bar Lines section, locate and activate the option
“Break Bar Lines with Brackets”.
• The option Break Last Brackets determines whether the
breaking of bar lines should also apply to the bar line at
the end of each row.