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Additional note and rest formatting
3. Click on the note and drag it to the desired position.
Note that movement is restricted to horizontally only.
Ö You can also automatically select all notes making up
a chord, by holding down [Alt]/[Option] and clicking on
one of the notes with the Layout tool.
By using the computer keyboard
You can assign key commands for moving objects graph-
ically. In the Key Commands dialog on the File menu, the
commands are found under the Nudge category and
called Graphical Left, Right, Bottom and Top (only the
Graphical Left and Right commands apply to notes).
After assigning key commands, you select the notes you
want to move and press the assigned keys to adjust their
graphical position.
Cue notes
You can create cue notes by using voices or by converting
individual notes into cue notes.
Setting a voice to display cue notes
1. Open the Score Settings–Staff page and select the
Polyphonic tab.
This is described in the section “Setting up the voices” on page 533.
2. Click in the “Cue” column for the voice, so that a
checkmark appears.
3. Decide how to handle rests for the voice.
You might for example leave “Rests–Show” activated and activate “Re-
duce”. If you do, you will get rests in this voice, but not as many as other-
wise. Empty bars, for example, will not have any rests at all.
4. Close the dialog.
5. Move the notes into the cue voice.
Polyphonic voicing is described in detail on “Polyphonic voicing” on
page 531.
An example of a cue note voice
A quick example
Let’s say you have a flute part and want some cue notes
for it.
1. Switch on polyphonic voices and activate voice 1 and
voice 2.
2. Set voice 2 to “Auto” stem direction and centered
rests.
3. Set up voice 1 to be a cue voice, with hidden rests
and stems pointing up.
4. Insert the cue notes into voice 1.
Turning individual notes into cue notes
1. Select one or several notes.
2. Double-click one of the notes.
The Set Note Info dialog appears. You can also click the “i” button on the
extended toolbar, or right-click on a note head and select “Properties”
from the context menu to open this dialog.
3. Select Cue from the Type pop-up.
Note type set to Cue
4. Click Apply.
The settings are applied to the selected notes.
5. When you are done, close the dialog by clicking its
close button.
“Cue” activated
for voice 3.