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● Select an item on the staff and at the rhythmic position where you want to input a string

indicator outside the staff. If you want to input a string indicator with a duration line,

select items on the staff that span that duration.

2. Optional: If you want to input string indicators onto multiple staves at once, extend the caret

to those staves.

3. Press Shift-P to open the playing techniques popover.

4. Enter the appropriate entry for the string indicator you want into the popover.

For example, enter string1 for just a string 1 indicator or string3-> for a string 3 indicator

with duration.

Press Return to close the popover.

Open-ended string indicators, such as string3->, automatically extend during note input as

you continue inputting notes, or if you advance the caret by pressing

Space .

Optional: During note input, stop open-ended string indicators by opening the playing

techniques popover again and entering ? into the popover.

This leaves the current string indicator with a duration line. You can also enter another string

indicator into the popover, but this joins the current string indicator to the following one

with a continuation line rather than a duration line, which is a less common notation.

RESULT

The specied string indicators are input. They are considered voice-specic by default, meaning

they only apply to the voice indicated by the caret indicator during step input or the selected

voice when adding string indicators to existing notes. They are automatically placed above the

staff for up-stem voices and below the staff for down-stem voices.

During note input, string indicators are input at the caret position, and extend automatically if

you included an open-ended string indicator with duration.

When adding string indicators to a single existing note, they are added to the selected note only

and have no duration. When adding string indicators to a range of notes, they are added to the

rst note in the selection and have duration, which applies until the end of the selection.

By default, string indicators have dashed duration lines with a hook cap at the end.

AFTER COMPLETING THIS TASK

● If you input string indicators without duration but want to show dashed duration lines, you

can add them.

● You can change the staff-relative placement of string indicators.