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Working with symbols
Adding a keyboard symbol
The “Other” tab contains a piano keyboard symbol, useful
for example in educational scores. The symbol has the fol-
lowing properties:
• To insert the keyboard symbol, select it from the Inspec-
tor, click with the Pencil tool at the desired position and
drag a box to specify the approximate size of the keyboard.
• After you have inserted the keyboard symbol, you can
drag its edges to resize it vertically or horizontally.
• If you right-click on an inserted keyboard symbol and
select “Properties” from the context menu, a dialog opens
allowing you to specify further properties for the symbol.
You can also double-click on an inserted keyboard symbol to open this
dialog.
Adding guitar chord symbols
A fretboard symbol of a guitar chord can be inserted any-
where in the score.
Guitar symbols are found on the “Guitar Symbols” tab and
the “Other” tab in the Symbols Inspector.
• The Guitar Symbols tab contains all Guitar symbols of
the current guitar library, see “Using the guitar library” on
page 563. If the symbol you want to insert is among these,
select it and insert it as you would any other symbol, see
above.
To insert a guitar symbol not present in the guitar library,
proceed as follows:
1. Open the “Other” tab.
2. Click on the guitar chord symbol, so that the Pencil
tool is selected.
3. Click in the score, at the position where you want the
symbol to appear.
The Guitar Symbol dialog appears.
• To put a black dot on any fret and string, click on it.
To remove it, click again.
• To add a symbol just above the string, outside the fret-
board, click there.
Consecutive clicks allow you to select between a ring (open string), a
cross (do not play this string) and no symbol.
Option Description
Size Governs the width of the keys.
Start Note This is the leftmost note in the keyboard symbol.
Show Note
Names
When this is activated, each C key is displayed with
note name and octave (C1, C2, etc.).
White/Black
Keys transparent
Activate these if you want the white and/or black keys
to be transparent.