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Additional note and rest formatting
A quick example
Let’s say you have a flute part and want some cue notes
for it:
1. Switch on polyphonic voices and activate voice 1 and
voice 2.
2. Set voice 2 to “Auto” stem direction and centered
rests.
3. Set up voice 1 to be a cue voice, with hidden rests
and stems pointing up.
4. Insert the cue notes into voice 1.
Turning individual notes into cue notes
1. Select one or several notes.
2. Double-click one of the notes.
The Set Note Info dialog appears. You can also click the “i” button on the
extended toolbar, or right-click on a note head and select “Properties”
from the context menu to open this dialog.
3. Select Cue from the Type pop-up menu.
4. Click Apply.
The settings are applied to the selected notes.
5. Close the dialog.
Grace notes
You can turn any note into a grace note. Grace notes are
considered to be notes without lengths. This means that
once a note is turned into a grace note it does not affect
the rest of the score display in any way.
Before and after converting to grace notes. Note that after the conver-
sion, the grace notes no longer “interfere” with the interpretation of the
other notes.
Creating grace notes manually
1. Locate the note for which you want a grace note.
2. Insert one or more new notes just before it.
The note value and exact position of the note is not important. However,
the pitch of course is.
From here on there are two ways to go:
• Select the notes and open the Set Note Info dialog, ei-
ther by double-clicking on one of the note heads or by
clicking the “i” icon on the extended toolbar.
In the dialog, select the Grace note type.
• Right-click on one of the notes and select “Convert to
Grace Note” from the context menu.
This turns the note into a grace note without opening any dialog.
Grace notes and beaming
If two grace notes are at exactly the same position (the
same tick), they are put onto the same stem, as a chord. If
multiple grace notes in front of the same note are put on
different positions (even if they are only one tick apart),
they are grouped under a beam.
It is possible to have beamed grace notes overlapping a
beam of regular notes, as in the example below:
Grace notes in the middle of a group of regular notes
Editing a grace note
1. Select one or several grace notes and open the Set
Note Info dialog.
2. Select a note value for the stem.
3. Activate Crossed, if needed.
When this is activated, the stem is crossed by a slanted line, to further in-
dicate that the note is a grace note.
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Grace notes are always positioned just before the
next note on the staff. If there is no note after a grace
note on the staff, the grace note are hidden!