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Designing your score: additional techniques
Setting the distance between staves within a
grand staff
1. Locate the lower staff in the grand staff you wish to
spread apart.
2. Click just to the left of its first bar line and keep the
mouse button pressed.
The entire staff gets selected.
3. Drag downwards or upwards and release the mouse
button.
The new distance is set for the two staves.
Setting the same distance between staves in
several systems
1. Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the desired staff as
described above.
2. Release the mouse button.
The corresponding staves in all following systems are moved accordingly.
Moving one staff only
You may wish to move one staff without affecting any
other staff in any way:
1. Hold down [Ctrl]/[Command].
2. Drag any staff as described above.
Moving staves between pages
By using the “Move to Next/Previous Page” commands on
the Staff context menu, you can quickly edit the page
breaks.
Moving staves to the next page
1. Locate and activate the staff you want to move to the
top of the next page.
This can be any staff except the first staff on the page.
2. Right-click on the blue rectangle to the left of the staff,
and select “Move to Next Page” from the context menu.
The active staff (and any following staves on the page) are moved to the
next page.
Moving staves to the previous page
1. Make the staff at the top of the page the active staff.
If any other staff is active, the option “Move to Previous Page” cannot be
used. Also, the function will not work for the first staff on the first page.
2. Right-click on the blue rectangle to the left of the staff,
and select “Move to Previous Page” from the context menu.
The active staff, and as many of the following staves as there are room
for, are moved to the previous page. If the previous page is already “full”,
nothing will happen.
Adding brackets and braces
Brackets and braces are added on the Score Settings–
Layout page. The settings you make are specific for the
current layout, i.e. you can have different brackets or
braces set up for different track configurations.
1. Open the Score Settings–Layout page.
In the Track list, you will find columns for braces ( { ) and brackets ( [ ).
2. Click in one of the columns and drag downwards in
the list to encompass the desired staves.
The column indicates graphically which staves will be encompassed by
the brace or bracket.
Dragging the staves in a piano system apart.
Click at the first staff for
which you want a bracket
or brace…
…and drag downwards
in the list to enclose the
desired staves.