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Designing your score: additional techniques
Moving staves to the previous page
1. Make the staff at the top of the page the active staff.
If any other staff is active, the “Move to Previous Page” option cannot be
used. Also, the function does not work for the first staff on the first page.
2. Right-click on the blue rectangle to the left of the staff,
and select “Move to Previous Page” from the context
menu.
The active staff, and as many of the following staves as there are room
for, are moved to the previous page. If the previous page is already “full”,
nothing happens.
Adding brackets and braces
Brackets and braces are added on the Layout page of the
Score Settings dialog. The settings you make are specific
for the current layout, i.e. you can have different brackets
or braces set up for different track configurations.
1. Open the Score Settings and select the Layout page.
In the track list, you can find columns for braces ( { ) and brackets ( [ ).
2. Click in one of the columns and drag downwards in
the list to encompass the desired staves.
The column indicates graphically which staves are encompassed by the
brace or bracket.
3. Close the dialog.
The score is displayed with brackets or braces according to the settings
you made.
• You can edit brackets and braces in the dialog by drag-
ging the ends of the indicator in the list.
• To remove a bracket or brace, click on its indicator in
the list.
Ö You can automatically get broken bar lines based on
the brackets you have added – see “Breaking bar lines”
on page 674.
Ö If the “Show Braces in Edit Mode” option is activated
in the Preferences dialog (Scores–Editing page), brackets
and braces are shown in Edit Mode as well.
Auto Layout
This item on the Scores menu brings up a dialog with sev-
eral options. Activating one of these makes the program
“go through” the score and make adjustments to measure
widths, staff distances, etc. Exactly which parts and prop
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erties of the score are affected depends on which option
you activate/deactivate.
Ö You can also open the Auto Layout dialog by clicking
the Auto Layout button on the extended toolbar.
Click at the first staff for
which you want a bracket
or brace…
…and drag downwards in
the list to enclose the
desired staves.
!
The automatic layout adjustments are done just as if
you yourself had made them manually. This means
that if there is something you do not like, you can al-
ways change it manually, as described above.