Brackets:
Horizontal lines
This entry contains instructions for placing
a horizontal line or bracket above a staff, with or without a hook at
the end.
To
draw a horizontal line
- Click
the Smart Shape tool
. The Smart Shape palette appears. (If it doesn’t,
choose Smart Shape palette from the Window menu.)
- Click the
bracket shape you want.
- Position
the cursor in the measure where you want the bracket to begin so that
the cursor arrow points to the staff to which you’re attaching it. This
is particularly important when you’re working in orchestral scores; if
you accidentally attach a Smart Shape to the wrong staff, it won’t appear
in the correct staff when the parts are extracted.
- Double-click;
on the second click, hold the button down and drag to the right until
the bracket is the correct length. It’s a good idea to press the
shift key just before your double-click and hold it down while you drag;
if you do so, PrintMusic will constrain your dragging action to a perfectly
horizontal plane, so that your bracket is perfectly level. You could also
control-click
the handle of the bracket and choose Make Horizontal from the contextual
menu after creating the bracket.
To move,
reshape, or delete a Smart Shape line
If the line is already selected, it displays
diamond editing handles; if so, skip to the last step.
- Click
the Smart Shape tool . The Smart Shape palette appears.
- Click
the handle of the shape you want to modify. The shape displays
a bounding rectangle.
- Drag
the right or left end of the bounding rectangle to change the line’s length.
Drag it by the center to move the line.
Tip: Press shift to
constrain your cursor to vertical and horizontal lines.
- Press
delete to remove the selected shape.
