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Additional note and rest formatting
Coloring notes
You can assign colors to notes using the Event Colors
pop-up menu on the toolbar. Proceed as follows:
1. Simply select the notes for which you want to use col-
ors, open the Event Colors pop-up menu on the toolbar
and pick a color.
Only the note heads are colored. Note that the color is only visible once
the notes have been deselected.
2. On the far right in the Score Editor toolbar you can
find the Hide Colors button.
If you assigned colors to some or all of the notes in your score, this but-
ton allows you to switch between display of colored or uncolored notes.
This may help you to find selected notes among other colored notes.
If the Preferences dialog (Scores–Colors for Additional
Meanings page) you can specify different colors for ele
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ments in the score in order to indicate that they are “spe-
cial” in any way. You can for example choose a color for a
“Moved Graphic” or a “Moved Slur”. These objects are
colored accordingly when they are moved from their de
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fault positions (see “Moving note symbols” on page 632).
1. Open the Preferences dialog (Scores–Use Colors for
Additional Meanings).
2. Click in the Active column to activate this function for
the corresponding element.
3. Click in the Color field to the right to select a color.
When color-printing a score, you get the colors you se-
lected for the notes. When you are using a black-and-white
printer, the notes appear in black (notes that have not been
assigned a color) and different shades of gray (depending
on how bright/dark a color was used for the note).
Copying settings between notes
If you have made various settings in the Set Note Info dia-
log for a note, and want to use these settings for other
notes as well, there is an easy way to do this:
1. Set up the first note as desired.
This includes the settings in the Set Note Info dialog, but also any note-
related symbols (such as accents, staccato, articulation, etc. – see
“Add-
ing note symbols” on page 622).
2. In the score, select the note and select “Copy” from
the Edit menu.
3. Select the notes to which you want to copy the attri-
butes.
4. Right-click the notes to which you want to copy the at-
tributes, and select “Paste Note Attributes” from the con-
text menu.
The selected notes now get the attributes of the first, copied note, but
their pitches and note values remain unchanged.
Handling beaming
Turning beaming on/off
Beaming is enabled/disabled independently for each staff.
1. Click the Options tab.
2. To turn off beaming, activate No Beams and click Apply.
Even if beaming is deactivated for the staff, you can put
some notes under beams, as described below.
Grouping
When beaming is on, the program automatically groups
notes under beams. However, there are a number of ways
to determine how notes are grouped.
Using the Edit Time Signature dialog
The time signature for the score naturally affects grouping.
But you can control this yourself by creating a composite
time signature used only for grouping:
1. Open the Edit Time Signature dialog by double-click-
ing the time signature symbol for the staff.
2. Set up the numerator with the grouping you desire.
If you for example want eighth notes in two groups of three and one
group of two, enter 3+3+2.