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Measure Assignment for Ossia Measure dialog box

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How to get there

You can access the Measure Assignment for Ossia Measure dialog box in two ways, depending on whether you are working in Page or Scroll view:

Click the Ossia tool $image\Ossia_Tool.gif$ .
In Page View, double-click the measure to which you want it attached (or double-click if there’s already a floating measure attached to it). The Ossia Designer dialog box appears.
Click Attach to Measure.
Click OK.

Click the Ossia tool $image\Ossia_Tool.gif$ .
In Scroll View, click the measure.
Click OK in the Ossia Designer dialog box.

You can also access this dialog box if the Ossia measure is already in the score:

Click the Ossia tool $image\Ossia_Tool.gif$ .
Click the measure to which it’s assigned and SHIFT+double-click its handle.

What it does

There are two distinctly different kinds of "ossia" measures. One kind of floating measure (called a page-assigned ossia measure, which you can create only in Page View) is attached permanently to a particular place on the page, where it will remain even if the "real" music around it is repositioned. The other, called a measure-assigned ossia measure, has a position that remains fixed relative to the measure to which it is attached, even if the measure’s position on the page changes. In this dialog box, you specify a measure-assigned floating measure’s precise positioning in relation to the "real" measure to which it’s attached.

Distance from Beginning of Measure: H: • V:. The numbers in these text boxes determine the precise position of the floating measure in relation to the "real" measure to which it’s attached. A positive H: (horizontal) number moves the measure to the right; a positive V: (vertical) number moves the measure upward. (Keep in mind, however, that you can also move the floating measure into position in the score by dragging its handle.) If H: and V: were both set at zero, the floating measure would be squarely superimposed over the "real" measure.
OK • Cancel. Click OK to confirm, or Cancel to discard, the settings you’ve made in this dialog box; you return to the score.