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Additional note and rest formatting
Beam appearance and slant settings
Global settings
In the Score Settings dialog, on the Project page (Nota-
tion Style subpage), you can find the following three op-
tions for beam appearance in the Beams category:
• Thick Beams.
Activate this if you want beams to be displayed as thick lines.
• Show Small Slants as Flat Beams.
When this is activated, beams that would be only slightly slanted are dis-
played flat.
Without and with “Show Small Slants as Flat Beams”
• Slanted Beams only Slightly Slanted.
Activate this if you only want a slightly slanted beam even though there
might be a significant pitch difference between the notes under the beam.
Without and with “Slanted Beams only Slightly Slanted”
Staff settings
In the Score Settings dialog, on the Options tab of the Staff
page, you can find a couple of settings for beams as well:
Manual adjustment of beams
For very detailed control you can manually adjust the
beam slant:
1. Group and flip notes and adjust the settings described
above until the beams are as close as possible to how you
want them.
2. Click on the corner made up by the beam and the
stem.
A handle appears on the corner of beam and stem.
A beam handle
3. Drag the handle up or down.
The slant of the beam changes.
Dragging a handle and the effect it has.
Ö You can adjust the distance between notes and their
beam without changing the beam slant. Select both han-
dles of a beam (by pressing the [Shift] key while selecting
the second handle) and drag one of the handles up or
down.
Mixed stem direction
By dragging the beam handles you can put the beam be-
tween the note heads:
Putting the beam between the notes.
About tied notes
Sometimes, notes are displayed as two or more notes tied
together. Generally, there are three different occasions
when this happens:
• When a note is of an “uneven” length that cannot be
displayed without tying together two or more notes of dif-
ferent note values.
• When a note crosses a bar line.
• When a note crosses a “group line” within a bar.
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These settings are global for all staves.
Option Description
Flat Beams Activate this when you do not want any slant at all, no
matter the pitch difference of the notes under the beams.
No Beams Activate this when you do not want any beams at all.