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TIP
If you want to change the staff size to represent an alternative version of a passage, you can
instead add an ossia staff, which you can show for specic regions.
PROCEDURE
1. Select an item on the staff whose size you want to change.
NOTE
You can only change the size of a single staff at a time.
2.
Choose Edit > Staff Size > [Staff size]. You can also choose this option from the context
menu.
3.
Optional: If you choose Custom Staff Size, you must set the staff size using the Custom
Staff Size dialog that opens.
RESULT
The size of the selected staff is changed in the current ow. This also works in combination with
the other ways of changing the staff size, such as changing the size of all staves in the layout or
changing the size of staves from specic system/frame breaks.
NOTE
Changing the staff size of individual staves affects the staff size of all instruments held by
that player.
Changing the staff size of individual staves affects its size for the whole ow.
If the size of system object font styles is set to Staff-relative, the staff size of the top staff in
each instrument family group affects the size of system objects if they are shown above that
bracketed group. Font styles that are set to
Absolute are unaffected by staff size.
RELATED LINKS
Brackets and braces on page 592
System objects on page 913
Custom Staff Size dialog
The Custom Staff Size dialog allows you to change the size of individual staves by a custom scale
factor.
You can open the Custom Staff Size dialog by selecting an item in the music area and
choosing Edit > Staff Size > Custom Staff Size.
Layout and formatting
Staff size
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Dorico Elements 3.5.12