Staff tool
In addition to adding and deleting staves,
use the Staff tool to edit staff-specific characteristics using the Staff Attributes dialog box. Define attributes such
as the staff's name, clef, transposition (if you're notating a transposing
instrument's part) and so on. Or, specify the number of lines in the staff,
and show or hide certain musical elements in the staff such as measure
numbers, expression markings, time signatures and so on.
When you click the
Staff tool, a Staff menu appears that contains all the commands for working with
staves and groups of staves: adding, deleting, positioning and spacing
staves, creating customized staff attributes, defining groups of staves,
adding brackets and piano braces, and so on.
Special mouse clicks
When you click the
Staff tool, the Staff menu appears, and appear on each staff and on staff-related items in the
score. Select a handle then choose a menu command, or use the shortcuts
listed below. The shortcuts are arranged by what the handle controls:
staff handles and staves, group handles (includes the group name), staff
name handles and bracket handles.
Staff handles and staves:
Staff handles always appear on staves in
the score, even on staves that are hidden.
- Click
the Staff tool to display the Staff menu. Handles appear on each
staff and staff-related item in the score.
- Click
a staff or a staff handle, or drag-enclose staff handles to select
a staff (or staves).
- Shift-click
a staff or a staff handle to add the staff to the selection. If
a staff is already selected, Shift-click to remove the staff from the
selection.
- Double-click
a staff or a staff handle or control-click
a staff handle and choose Edit Staff Attributes to edit the staff's
attributes.
- Option-Shift-click
a staff or staff handle in one or more selected staves (or
control-click
the handle and select Add Bracket from the contextual menu)
to create a new group for the selected staves.
- Press
delete for selected staves, or control-click
the handle and select Delete Staves from the contextual menu to
delete the selected staves without repositioning the remaining staves.
- Drag a staff handle in Scroll View. Adjust the staff’s position.
- Drag a staff handle in Page View. Note: If two handles appear on a staff, drag the top handle. Adjust the staff’s position in every staff system in Page View and Scroll View. When the top staff is adjusted, PrintMusic adjusts the distance between staves, as well as staff systems.
- Drag the bottom staff handle in Page View. Note: If Allow Individual Staff Spacing has been turned on in the Page Layout tool, two handles will appear on each staff to adjust the staff’s position only in the current staff system (drag the top handle to adjust the position of the staff in all staff systems in Page View).
- Select
the bottom staff handle or handles in Page View and press delete
for selected staves, or control-click the handle and select Delete
Staves from the contextual menu to
delete the selected staves for that system only without repositioning
the remaining staves.
- Select
the bottom staff handle or handles in Page View and press shift-delete
for selected staves, or control-click the handle and select Delete
Staves from the contextual menu
to delete the selected staves for that system only and reposition the
remaining staves.
Note: If two handles
appear on a staff, drag the top handle
- Drag
the bottom staff handle in Page View to Adjust the staff’s position only
in the current staff system (drag the top handle to
adjust the position of the staff in all staff systems in Page View).
Staff name handles:
Staff name handles appear on existing staves
in the score only if you have entered a staff name, or if PrintMusic's default
staff name appears for an unnamed staff.
- Staff name handles appear on existing staves in the score only if you have entered a staff name, or if PrintMusic's default staff name appears for an unnamed staff.
- Click a staff name handle, or drag-enclose staff name handles to select a staff name (or names).
- Shift-click a full or abbreviated staff name handle to add the staff name to the selection.
- Shift-click to remove the staff name from the selection.
- Double-click a full or abbreviated staff name handle to edit the staff's attributes.
- Press Clear to revert the position of the selected full or abbreviated staff name to its default position.
- Drag a full or abbreviated staff name handle to adjust the position of the selected staff name.
Bracket handles:
Two bracket handles
appear on each bracket on a group, even if you did not enter a group name.
Click a bracket handle, or drag-enclose
several bracket handles to select a bracket (or brackets).
- Click
a bracket handle, or drag-enclose several bracket handles to select
a bracket (or brackets).
- Shift-click
a bracket handle to add the bracket to the selection. If a bracket
is already selected, Shift-click to remove the bracket from the selection.
- Double-click
a bracket handle, or control-click
the handle and select Edit Group Attributes from the contextual menu
to edit a group. The Bracket Attributes dialog box
appears.
- Press
delete for selected brackets, or control-click
the handle and select Delete Bracket from the contextual menu to
remove the selected brackets of the selected group definition.
- Press
backspaceclear for selected brackets to revert the selected brackets
to their default length.
- Drag
a bracket handle vertically to make a bracket taller or shorter.
- Drag
a bracket handle horizontally to move a bracket closer to or away
from bracketed staves.
Contextual menus
Contextual menus are reached by control-clicking on the handle of an
object. A contextual menu will be displayed where you can select various
items.
menu item
|
What it does
|
Edit Staff Attributes
|
Opens the Staff Attributes dialog box
|
Add Bracket
|
Opens the Bracket Attributes dialog box
|
Delete Staves
|
Deletes the staff |
See Also:
Main tool
palette
Staff menu