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Designing your score: additional techniques
Reset Layout
This function allows you to delete invisible layout elements,
which in effect restores the score to default settings.
1. Select “Reset Layout…” from the Scores menu.
The Reset Layout dialog appears.
The following options are available:
2. Activate the items you want to delete or reset to stan-
dard settings.
3. Click on “This Staff” to clean up the active staff only, or
on “All Staves” to clean up all staves in the score.
Breaking bar lines
Sometimes you may not want a bar line to stretch all the
way across a grand staff. If this is the case, you have the
possibility to “break it”.
Manually
Breaking bar lines in one grand staff
1. Select the Erase tool.
2. Click on a bar line connecting the two staves.
All bar lines between these two staves (except the first and last) are bro-
ken. To break the first or last bar line in a grand staff, you need to click di-
rectly on these.
Before and after splitting the bar lines between two staves.
Breaking bar lines in several grand staves
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] and click on a bar line as
described above, the corresponding bar lines are broken
in all following grand staves.
Re-connecting broken bar lines
If you have broken the bar lines, you can use the Glue tool
to connect them again.
1. Select the Glue tool.
2. Click on one of the bar lines in the staff above the bro-
ken bar lines.
All bar lines between these staves in this grand staff are connected.
• To re-connect bar lines in several grand staves, hold
down [Alt]/[Option] and click with the Glue tool.
The bar lines between the corresponding staves are connected in all fol-
lowing grand staves.
Option Description
Hidden Notes Makes all hidden notes permanently visible again.
Hidden Makes all other hidden objects permanently visible again.
Quantize Deletes all Display Quantize elements.
Layout tool Resets all positions of notes, clefs, slurs and ties altered
using the Layout tool.
Grouping Resets the grouping under beams to standard values.
Cutflag Deletes all cutflag events.
Stems/Beams Resets the length of all stems and reset the slant of
beams that have been manually adjusted.
Coordinates Removes all manual spacing of note symbols and slurs.