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Hiding/Showing chord symbol region highlights

You can hide/show colored highlights for chord symbol regions at any time, for example, if you

want to show the highlights when inputting music but hide them when engraving.

NOTE

This does not affect the solid line shown above the staff in chord symbol regions, which you

cannot hide.

PROCEDURE

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Choose View > Highlight Chord Symbol Regions.

RESULT

Highlights in chord symbol regions are shown when a tick appears beside Highlight Chord

Symbol Regions in the menu, and hidden when no tick appears.

Positions of chord symbols

In layouts where chord symbols are shown, they are positioned either above all instrument

staves set to show chord symbols or only above the top staff in each system.

By default, chord symbols are centered horizontally on the middle of the front notehead in the

rst voice column at their rhythmic position.

NOTE

The front notehead is the notehead on the correct side of the stem at that rhythmic position.

Alignment of chord symbols relative to notes and chords

You can change whether chord symbol text is left-aligned above the notehead, center-aligned

above the notehead, or right-aligned above the notehead, although right-aligned typically

produces unclear results.

You can change the horizontal alignment of individual chord symbols by activating Alignment in

the Chord Symbols group of the Properties panel and selecting an option from the menu.

Alignment of chord symbols across the system

Chord symbols are aligned at the same vertical position across the width of the system by

default.