Brackets:
Staves
You use the Staff tool to place staff brackets
(including “curly braces” on piano staves) into the score. Drag the top
or the bottom handles of a bracket to stretch it, or to change its distance
from the staves. To create nested brackets (one bracket within another),
select each set of staves that you want the brackets to enclose. Staves
can belong to more than one group.
To place a bracket
If you want to place more than one bracket,
see To create
additional (nested) brackets, below.
- Click
the Staff tool
. The Staff menu appears.
- Select
all the staves you want included, then choose Add Bracket from the Staff
menu. The Bracket Attributes dialog box appears.
- Select
staves from the Staff and Through popup menus to set the starting and ending staves.
All staves in between will also be included.
- Click
one of the bracket styles in the Bracket Attributes dialog box to select
the style you want to use for the group.
- Click
OK to add the bracket and return to the score.
To
move or stretch a bracket
- Click
the Staff tool . Handles appear on every group bracket in the
score.
- Drag
the bottom handle up or down. Drag the top handle left, right, up, or
down. When you drag the top handle horizontally, the entire bracket
moves. When you drag either handle vertically, you can make it appear
to enclose other staves.
- Select
a bracket handle and press clear to revert a
bracket to its default length (so it encloses the staves).
To delete a bracket
- Click
the Staff tool .
- To
delete a bracket on-screen, click a bracket handle, then press delete.
To
create additional (nested) brackets
PrintMusic allows you to define only one
bracket at a time using the Bracket Attributes dialog box. However, you
can still place more than one bracket on staves. Simply create additional
brackets for the same staves, choosing a different bracket style for each
group. This has the advantage that each bracket is automatically sized
to match its corresponding group.
- Select
the staves that you want the bracket to enclose, then choose Add Bracket
from the Staff menu. See To
place a bracket earlier in this section.
