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NOTE
You can complete these steps in any order. However, deleting barlines can cause note and
beam groupings to change. If you are choosing a new barline position based on particular
phrases, this might make it harder to nd the new position you want.
RELATED LINKS
Inputting barlines with the popover on page 182
Inputting barlines with the panel on page 183
Deleting barlines on page 385
Barlines across staff groups
In order to make it easier to nd a particular instrument within a score, barlines can extend
across instrumental and staff groups.
Using default staff groups
When a barline only appears on individual staves, it is much harder to locate individual lines at a
glance. However, when barlines continue across instrumental groups in the score, instrument
families are shown as blocks, which makes nding an instrument much easier.
Barlines on individual staves Barlines across instrumental groups
Barlines extend across staff groups when they are joined by a bracket. Which staves are included
in a bracket depends on the instrumentation and context, but usually staves for instruments
from the same family, such as woodwind or strings, are bracketed together.
In Dorico Elements, you can only determine which staves are bracketed together by starting a
new project using the appropriate template for how you want staves to be bracketed.
Making custom staff groups
You can also manually arrange your players into groups, which have their own bracket and
barline groupings.
If one or more players included in your group were previously in another group, any remaining
instruments in their previous group remain grouped.
Barlines
Barlines across staff groups
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