User manual

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Additional note and rest formatting
Cross-staff beaming
To create a beam that extends from one staff to another,
proceed as follows:
1. Set up a split or polyphonic voicing system or open the
Score Editor with more than one track.
2. Set up a beam of notes (using the group command)
and adjust their pitches so that they are correct even
though some of the notes are on the wrong staff.
Use the info line to edit the pitches if they are very low or high.
3. Select the notes that should appear on the other staff.
4. Select “Display in Staff” from the context menu for a
selected note and select a staff from the submenu.
The notes are “graphically” moved to the selected system,
but keep their actual pitch.
Before and after moving a note to the lower staff
5. If needed, adjust the beam appearance (see “Manual
adjustment of beams” on page 549).
Cross-staff beaming with the beam in the middle
This does not move the affected notes to another track, but
merely displays them as if they belonged to the other staff.
Handling beam groups
There are two settings for groups under a beam, Beam
Subgroups and 16th Subgroups, both found on the Op-
tions tab on the Score Settings–Staff page. If “Beam Sub-
groups” is activated, the program displays subgroups after
four sixteenth notes under a beam. If you also activate “16th
Subgroups”, subgroups appear after only two sixteenths.
Beam appearance and slant settings
Global settings
On the Score Settings–Project page (Notation Style sub-
page), you will find the following three options for beam
appearance in the Beams category:
• Thick Beams.
Activate this if you want beams to be displayed as thick lines.
• Show Small Slants as Flat Beams.
When this is activated, beams that would be only slightly slanted will be
displayed flat.
Without and with “Show Small Slants as Flat Beams”
Beam Subgroups off
Beam Subgroups on
On with 16th Subgroups activated