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Placement of playing techniques with two voices on the same staff

Playing technique texts use a plain font, neither bold nor italic, so they are not confused with

expressive text and dynamics.

NOTE

This does not apply to pedal lines, as they use a separate font style to other playing techniques.

RELATED LINKS

Pedal lines on page 547

Pedal line start, continuation, and restorative text on page 564

Project-wide engraving options for playing techniques

You can nd options for the project-wide appearance and position of playing techniques on the

Playing Techniques page in Engraving Options.

The options on the Playing Techniques page allow you to change the distance between playing

techniques and the staff, the arrangement of multiple text playing techniques at the same

rhythmic position, and playing technique continuation styles.

There are musical examples for many options to demonstrate how they affect the appearance of

your music.

You can open Engraving Options in any of the following ways:

● Press Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-E in any mode.

● Choose Engrave > Engraving Options in Engrave mode.

You can then click Playing Techniques in the page list on the left of the dialog.

Positions of playing techniques

You can change the positions of playing techniques individually and by changing their default

positions project-wide. For example, you can override the default position for individual playing

techniques if you want extra space for other instructions at those positions.

You can move playing techniques to different rhythmic positions in Write mode. They are

positioned by default according to your settings in Engraving Options.

You can move playing techniques graphically in Engrave mode, but this does not change the

rhythmic positions to which they are attached.

You can change the default positions of all playing techniques project-wide on the Playing

Techniques page in Engrave > Engraving Options.