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Lengthening/Shortening bar repeat regions on page 611

Hiding/Showing multi-bar rests on page 636

Project-wide engraving options for bar repeats

You can nd options controlling the project-wide design and appearance of bar repeats on the

Bar Repeats page in Engraving Options.

The options on the Bar Repeats page allow you to change the frequency of bar repeat counts,

the appearance of bar repeat counts, and how bar repeats are grouped when a four-bar phrase

contains a single bar followed by a three-bar repeat.

The options are accompanied by diagrams to help you visualize 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 Bar Repeats in the page list on the left of the dialog.

Changing the length of the repeated phrase in bar repeat

regions

You can change the number of bars that make up the repeated phrase in individual bar repeats

after you have input them, for example, if you want the region to repeat the previous two bars

rather than the previous four bars.

NOTE

You cannot repeat more bars than exist before the bar repeat region. For example, if a bar

repeat region follows the rst notated bar in a ow, you cannot increase the number of bars in

the repeated phrase.

PROCEDURE

1. Select the bar repeat regions whose phrase length you want to change.

2. In the Properties panel, select one of the following options from the No. bars menu in the

Bar Repeat Regions group:

● One bar

● Two bars

● Four bars

RESULT

The number of bars that make up the repeated phrase in the selected bar repeat regions is

changed. This affects the music that is played back.