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Designing your score: additional techniques
5. If you use bar numbers, adjust them as described in
the previous example.
The final upbeat
Setting the number of bars across
the page
Automatically
• When you open a new combination of tracks for editing,
the number of bars across the page is determined by the
“Default Number of Bars per Staff” setting in the Prefer
-
ences dialog (Scores–Editing page).
• In the Auto Layout dialog (see “Auto Layout” on page
672), you can set the maximum number of bars across the
staff.
Manually
In Page Mode, you have full control over the number of
bars appearing across the page, by using the Number of
Bars dialog or the tools.
Ö If you want to use the “Max. number of Bars” option in
the Auto Layout dialog (see
“Auto Layout” on page 672),
you should do this before you adjust the number of bars
manually.
Using the Number of Bars dialog
1. Make a staff active in the system where you want to
make changes.
This means that if everything looks fine until for example the fifth system,
activate one of the staves in this system.
2. Pull down 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.