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Designing your score: additional techniques
3. Drag downwards until you have reached the desired
distance between the staves and release the mouse button.
Before…
…and after dragging the upper system
Setting the same distance between all grand
staves
1. Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the first staff of the
second system, until you have reached the desired dis
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tance between this and the first system.
2. Release the mouse button.
The distances between all the systems are adjusted accordingly.
Setting the distance between staves within a
grand staff
1. Locate the lower staff in the grand staff that you want
to spread apart.
2. Click just to the left of its first bar line and keep the
mouse button pressed.
The entire staff gets selected.
3. Drag downwards or upwards and release the mouse
button.
The new distance is set for the two staves.
Setting the same distance between staves in
several systems
1. Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the desired staff as
described above.
2. Release the mouse button.
The corresponding staves in all following systems are moved accordingly.
Moving one staff only
You may want to move one staff without affecting any
other staff in any way:
1. Hold down [Ctrl]/[Command].
2. Drag any staff as described above.
Moving staves between pages
By using the “Move to Next/Previous Page” commands on
the Staff context menu, you can quickly edit the page
breaks.
Moving staves to the next page
1. Locate and activate the staff you want to move to the
top of the next page.
This can be any staff except the first staff on the page.
2. Right-click on the blue rectangle to the left of the staff,
and select “Move to Next Page” from the context menu.
The active staff (and any following staves on the page) are moved to the
next page.
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This operation affects the system you drag and all
following systems.
Dragging the staves in a piano system apart.