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Additional note and rest formatting
Coloring notes
You can assign colors to notes using the color pop-up
menu on the toolbar.
1. Simply select the notes for which you wish to use col-
ors, click the Color Scheme Selector field to the right in the
toolbar and pick a color from the pop-up menu.
Only the note heads will be colored. Note that the color will only be visi-
ble once the notes have been deselected.
2. On the far right in the Score Editor toolbar you will find
the Hide Colors button.
If you assigned colors to some or all of the notes in your score, this but-
ton allows you to switch between display of colored or uncolored notes.
This may help you to find selected notes among other colored notes.
If the Preferences dialog (Scores–Colors for Additional
meanings page) you can specify different colors for ele-
ments in the score in order to indicate that they are “spe-
cial” in any way. You can for example choose a color for a
“Moved Graphic” or a “Moved Slur”. These objects will be
colored accordingly when they are moved from their default
positions (see “Moving note symbols” on page 568).
1. Open the Preferences dialog (Scores–Use Colors for
Additional meanings).
2. Click in the Active column to activate this function for
the respective element.
3. Click in the color field to the right to specify the de-
sired color.
Ö The colors will be included when you print the score.
When color-printing a score, you will get the colors you selected for the
notes. When you are using a black-and-white printer, the notes will appear
in black (notes that have not been assigned a color) and different shades
of grey (depending on how bright/dark a color was used for the note).
Copying settings between notes
If you have made various settings in the Set Note Info dia-
log for a note, and want to use these settings for other
notes as well, there is an easy way to do this:
1. Set up the first note as desired.
This includes the settings in the Set Note Info dialog, but also any note-
related symbols (such as accents, staccato, articulation, etc. – see “Ad-
ding note symbols” on page 559).
2. In the score, select the note and select “Copy” from
the Edit menu.
3. Select the notes to which you want to copy the at-
tributes.
4. Right-click the notes to which you want to copy the at-
tributes, and select “Paste Note Attributes” from the con-
text menu.
The selected notes will now get the attributes of the first, copied note,
but their pitches and note values will remain unchanged.
Handling beaming
Turning beaming on/off
Beaming is enabled/disabled independently for each staff.
1. Click the Options tab.
2. To turn off beaming, activate No Beams and click Apply.
Even if beaming is deactivated for the staff, you can put
some notes under beams, as described below.
Grouping
When beaming is on, the program automatically groups
notes under beams. However, there are a number of ways
to determine how notes are grouped.
Using the Edit Time Signature dialog
The time signature for the score naturally affects grouping.
But you can control this yourself by creating a composite
time signature used only for grouping:
1. Open the Edit Time Signature dialog by double-click-
ing the time signature symbol for the staff.
2. Set up the numerator with the grouping you desire.
If you for example want eighth notes in two groups of three and one
group of two, enter 3+3+2.