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Additional note and rest formatting
Accidentals and enharmonic shift
Making global settings
In the Score Settings dialog, on the Project page (Acciden-
tals subpage), you can find a number of options for how ac-
cidentals are displayed in the score. Once set, these are
valid for all tracks in the project. Proceed as follows:
1. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Project page
and select the Accidentals subpage from the list dis-
played on the left.
Now, you have the following possibilities:
• Activate the “Courtesy Acc Distance” option and enter
a value in the bars field.
This determines after how many measures courtesy accidentals are
shown. If you set this to “0”, notes outside the scale get accidentals and
no courtesy accidentals are shown.
• Activate one of the following options by clicking on the
graphics:
2. With the radio buttons to the right, you can decide
how five of the most common intervals outside the scale
are displayed, as sharps or as flats.
Enharmonic shift
If one or several notes are not displayed with the acciden-
tals that you want, you can perform an Enharmonic Shift
operation on them.
1. Select the notes to be shifted.
2. Click the desired option on the extended toolbar.
3. If you want the enharmonic shift to be repeated in the
whole bar, activate the “Enharmonic shift for entire bar” op
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tion in the Score Settings dialog (Project–Accidentals sub-
page).
Changing the note head shape
1. Select the notes for which you want to change the
note head shape.
Make sure not to select the stems, only the note heads.
2. Open the Set Note Info dialog.
To do so, double-click one of the notes, click the “i” button on the ex-
tended toolbar, or right-click on a note head and select “Properties” from
the context menu.
3. Pull down the “Note Head” pop-up menu in the top
left corner of the dialog.
The pop-up menu contains all the available head shapes and an “Auto”
option, which selects the normal default shape for the note.
Option Description
Force Notes outside the scale get accidentals and accidentals
are repeated even within the same bar.
Force all Every single note in the score gets an accidental.
!
If you activate the “Accidentals for Each Note” option
in the Score Settings dialog, on the Project–Nota
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tion Style subpage (in the “H.W. Henze Style” cate-
gory), all notes are displayed with accidentals (even
tied notes).
Option Description
Use these buttons when you want regular Enharmonic
Shifting (select one option).
Use this button when you want to deactivate Enharmonic
Shifting for the notes.
Use this button when you want to hide the accidental
completely.
Use this button when you want to create a “help acciden-
tal” for the selected notes only.
Use this button when you want to enclose the accidental
in parentheses. To remove these, select “off”.