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Designing your score: additional techniques
Moving bar lines
The following operations can be made using the regular
Object Selection tool or the Layout tool.
Moving a bar line
If you drag a bar line to the left or right, the surrounding
bars are adjusted proportionally.
Moving bar lines on all staves
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] when dragging a bar line, all
bar lines below the one you drag are moved accordingly.
Moving a single bar line separately
If you hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] while dragging a bar
line, the widths of the surrounding bars are not affected.
Making an indent on one line
• To create an indent, simply drag the first or last bar line
on a staff.
The sizes of all measures are adjusted proportionally.
Before and after dragging the first bar line on the first staff
Making indents on several lines
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the first or last bar
line in a system, all following systems get the same indent.
If you want all lines on all pages to be modified in the same
way, hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the appropriate
bar line on the first system of the score.
The last bar line in the score
Cubase attempts to move the last bar line and space the
bars on the last line in a sensible way. But you can change
this manually by dragging the last bar line, if you like. To
change the type of the last bar line, double-click it and se
-
lect the desired type.
Resetting bar spacing
To reset the bar spacing to standard values for several
lines, proceed as follows:
1. Locate the first line for which you want to reset the bar
spacing, and make one staff in that system active.
2. Select “Number of Bars” from the Advanced Layout
submenu on the Scores menu.
3. Specify the number of bars that you already have on
the line.
4. Click on “This Staff”.
Clicking “All Staves” resets the lines of all staves in the score, see “Using
the Number of Bars dialog” on page 669.
5. Close the dialog.
The bar spacing is reset for the currently selected staff and all following
staves.
Dragging staves
For the following operations, you can use the Object Se-
lection tool or the Layout tool.
Ö Dragging staves can only be done in Page Mode.
Adding space between two grand staves
1. Locate the first staff in the lower of the two systems
that you want to spread apart.
2. Click just to the left of the first bar line and keep the
mouse button pressed.
The entire staff is selected.