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Working with symbols
The Line/Trill tab
Octave symbols
The octave symbols (8va and 15va) act as a “local display
transpose” (see
“Transposing instruments” on page 565)
– they shift the display of the score one/two octaves
down.
• By dragging the end of the dotted line, you can specify
exactly which notes are affected by the octave symbol.
Only notes beneath the dotted line are display transposed.
• You can also right-click on the octave symbol and se-
lect the “Extend (+)” or “Reduce (-)” command to extend it
to the next chord or to reduce it.
Tuplet group symbols
These are “graphical” tuplet group symbols, as opposed
to the “real” tuplets.
• After inserting a tuplet group symbol, you can double-
click on its number and enter any number from 2 to 32.
• In the Score Settings dialog (Project page–Notation
Style subpage) you can specify globally how tuplets are
displayed.
You can also select a font and size for the tuplet numbers in the Text Set-
tings subpage.
• You can also right-click on the tuplet group symbol and
select the “Extend (+)” or “Reduce (-)” command to ex-
tend it to the next chord or to reduce it.
Vertical symbols
The vertical symbols in the Line/Trill tab are “note-depen-
dent”. This means that they must be inserted in front of a
note. For more information see
“Note layer symbols” on
page 619 and the text about grace notes (which behave
similarly) in the section “Grace notes” on page 615.
The Other tab
Lyrics and text symbols are described in the chapter “Work-
ing with text” on page 645. Chord symbols are described in
the section “Inserting Chord symbols” on page 641.
Pedal down and up symbols
When you insert a Pedal down or up symbol, you also in-
sert an actual MIDI event (damper pedal, control change
64) at that position. Similarly, inserting or recording a
damper pedal event in another editor displays a pedal
down/up symbol in the score.
• If the “Hide Pedal Markers” option is activated in the
Score Settings dialog, Project–Notation Style subpage
(Miscellaneous category), all pedal markers are hidden.
Use this if you have recorded a lot of damper pedal messages, but do not
want these to show in the score (for example if you are writing for an in
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strument other than piano).
A pedal down/up symbol combination can be displayed as
“Two Symbols”, ““Ped.” + Bracket” or as “Bracket only”.
Just right-click on the pedal symbol and choose an option
from the context menu. You can also set this in the Score
Settings dialog, on the Project–Notation Style subpage
(Miscellaneous category).
Repeats
Repeat signs (one and two bars) have a special feature: if
you hold down [Shift]-[Ctrl]/[Command] when entering
them, notes in the bars they relate to are automatically hid
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den (for more info on hiding symbols, see “Hiding/show-
ing objects” on page 665).