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Designing your score: additional techniques
3. Close the dialog.
The score is displayed with brackets or braces according to the settings
you made.
• You can edit brackets and braces in the dialog by drag-
ging the ends of the indicator in the list.
• To remove a bracket or brace, click on its indicator in
the list.
Ö You can automatically get broken bar lines based on
the brackets you have added – see “Breaking bar lines”
on page 608.
Ö If the option “Show Braces in Edit Mode” is activated
in the Preferences dialog (Scores–Editing page), brackets
and braces are shown in Edit Mode as well.
Auto Layout
This item on the Scores menu brings up a dialog with sev-
eral options. Activating one of these makes the program
“go through” the score and make adjustments to measure
widths, staff distances, etc. Exactly which parts and prop-
erties of the score are affected depends on which option
you activate/deactivate.
Ö You can also open the Auto Layout dialog by clicking
the Auto Layout button on the extended toolbar.
Move bars
This option looks at the currently active grand staff, and
attempts to adjust the measure widths, so that all notes
and symbols get as much room as possible. The number
of bars on the staff is not affected.
• You can perform this function for several staves in one
go, by dragging a selection rectangle over their left edges,
and then selecting Move Bars.
Move Staves
This changes the measure width (as with Move Bars) but
also the vertical staff distance, of the active staff and all
following staves.
Spread Page
This corrects the vertical layout of the staves on the cur-
rent page, so that they “fit onto the page”. In other words,
this removes white space at the bottom of the page.
Hide Empty Staves
This hides all empty staves, from the active staff to the end
of the score. Note that polyphonic/split staves are in this
case treated as one entity, if the clef in the upper system
differs from that in the lower system. That is, a piano staff
is considered “empty” only if there are no notes on either
staff.
• If you have activated the “Hidden” option on the Filter
Bar, hidden staves are indicated by a marker with the text
“Hide:Name” (where “Name” is the staff name).
To display hidden staves, delete their “Hide” markers.
• If you activate the option “Auto Layout: Don’t hide first
staff” in the Preferences dialog (Scores–Editing page),
staves in the very first grand staff will not be hidden, even
if they are empty.
This is useful for example if you are creating an orchestra score, and want
to show the complete “layout” of the orchestra on the first page of the
score, without hiding anything.
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The automatic layout adjustments are done just as if
you yourself had made them manually. This means
that if there is something you do not like, you can al-
ways change it manually, as described above.