To modify brackets on a system-by-system basis

You can avoid showing a bracket on a group containing a single staff, such as a solo line. If you don’t want a bracket to appear, make sure that Show Bracket If Group Only Contains One Staff is not selected in the Group Attributes dialog box.

However, there may be situations where you need the bracket configuration to change from one staff system to another. If you optimize the system (remove any empty staves), you’ll find that you can use the Staff Tool in Page View to rearrange and re-bracket the staves on a system-by-system basis. For details on staff optimization, see Optimizing systems.

1. Choose Page View from the View menu. Two handles appear on staves that have been optimized.
2. Drag to adjust the bracket for the staff system. Or, double-click the group handle for that staff system that you want to change, change the bracket as needed, then click OK. (For instructions, see Groups—To group staves, and To place a bracket on grouped staves, above). Any changes you make will appear only in the single, optimized, staff system. 

After a system has been optimized, edits to groups and brackets only apply to that system. To edit groups and brackets on optimized systems en mass, use the Update Groups and Brackets plug-in.

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