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Working with symbols
• If the option “Hide Pedal Markers” is activated in the
Miscellaneous category of “Notation Style” subpage of
the Score Settings–Project page, all pedal markers are
hidden.
Use this if you have recorded a lot of damper pedal messages, but do not
want these to show in the score (for example if you are writing for an in-
strument other than piano).
A pedal down/up symbol combination can be displayed as
“Two Symbols”, ““Ped.” + Bracket” or as “Bracket only”.
Just right-click on the pedal symbol and choose an option
from the context menu. You can also set this on the Score
Settings–Project page, on the Notation Style subpage
(Miscellaneous).
Repeats
Repeat signs (one and two bars) have a special feature: if
you hold down [Shift]-[Ctrl]/[Command] when entering
them, notes in the bars they relate to are automatically hid-
den (for more info on hiding symbols, see “Hiding/sho-
wing objects” on page 599).
Box (rectangle) symbol
This is a “generic” box symbol, which may be useful for
different purposes. If you double-click on a box, a dialog
opens in which you can specify whether the box should be
transparent or not, and whether the border should be visi-
ble. This dialog can also be opened by selecting “Proper-
ties” from the context menu.
The box symbol is available in the “Other” and “Layout”
tabs.
The keyboard symbol
This is described in the section “Adding a keyboard sym-
bol” on page 562.
Additional symbols
If you click on the “Select Symbol” button and then into the
score, the “Select Symbol” dialog opens. Here you can
choose note heads, accidentals and rests that work only as
drawing elements, i.e. they do not insert any note data into
the track. They do not affect MIDI playback! You can set the
desired symbol font size directly in the Font Size field.
The “Layout” tab
Rehearsal marks
These come in two flavors, as numbers and as letters.
When you place the first of these in the score, it will be la-
belled 1 or A (depending which you choose in the tab),
the second will then automatically be labelled 2 or B, the
next 3 or C etc. If you delete one, the labelling of the oth-
ers will be shifted so that they always make up a complete
series of numbers/letters.
• You can select a font and size for rehearsal marks in the
“Text Settings” subpage of the Score Settings–Project
page.
This dialog also allows you to add a box or an oval around the rehearsal
mark.
• Rehearsal marks can be added automatically, at the
start position of each Marker in the project.
This is done using the “Marker track to Form” function.