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Designing your score: additional techniques
Moving bar lines
2. Open the Scores menu and select “Number Of Bars” from the Advanced Layout
submenu.
The Number of Bars dialog opens.
3. Set the desired number of bars across the page.
• To change the number of bars for the active staff only, click “This Staff”.
• To change the number of bars for the active staff and all following staves, click “All
Staves”.
In other words, to set all systems on all pages to the same number of bars, make
the very first staff active and use the All Staves option.
Using the tools
• To make a bar “fall down” on a new staff, use the Split tool to click on its bar line.
Before and after moving the third bar one staff down
• To bring the bar back up to the previous staff, use the Glue tool to click on the last
bar line on the upper of the two staves.
This in fact moves all measures in the lower staff to the upper staff.
Moving bar lines
The following operations can be made using the regular Object Selection tool or the
Layout tool.
Moving a bar line
If you drag a bar line to the left or right, the surrounding bars are adjusted
proportionally.