Measures
See also Measure
layout.
- From the Edit Menu, choose Add Measures.The Add Measures dialog box appears.
- Enter
the desired number of measures. Click OK (or press enter).
You can also add a single measure at the end of the score double-clicking
the Measure tool.)
- Choose any tool that allows regional selection. See Selecting music.
- Select the measure after the point of insertion.
Even if there is more than one staff, click a single measure. SongWriter will add
a blank measure in every staff.
- From the Measure Menu, choose Insert Measure Stack or, if the Measure tool is selected, you can right-click on the top measure handle and choose
Insert Measure Stack. A dialog box appears, asking how many measures
you want to insert.
- Enter the desired number of measures. Click
OK (or press enter).
- Choose any tool that allows regional selection. See Selecting music.
- Double-click a measure to select the full measure stack. Highlighting should extend between the staves (or above and below the staff if there is only a single staff).
- Press the Delete key, or, from the Edit Menu, choose Delete Measure Stack. This removes
the selected measures from every staff.
The result: your score contains fewer measures.
In general, when you remove a measure from
the score, SongWriter removes the measure in question from every staff
in the score. Using the following technique, however, you can remove a
measure from a single staff (in effect) by sliding the subsequent measures
one measure to the left.
- Click
the Selection tool , and click the next measure after the measure you want
to delete.
- Shift-click
the last measure in the piece.
- Drag
the first selected measure to the left, so that it’s superimposed on the
measure you want to delete. SongWriter asks you how many times
you want the selected music copied. The default value, once, is what you
want.
- Click
OK (or press enter).
SongWriter moves the music you selected one measure to the left, in effect
eliminating the measure you wanted to remove. There may now be an extra
measure at the end of the staff; just erase or remove it (see To erase or remove measures).
- Click
the Measure tool . A handle appears on each barline.
- Drag
the right barline of the measure in question to the right or left.
It’s useful to remember that you can adjust
the relative widths of the measures in any particular system.
- Go
to Page View, if you’re not already there. You change views by
choosing Page View from the View Menu.
- Choose
Update Layout from the Edit Menu.
- Click
the Measure tool . A handle
appears on every barline.
- Drag
the handle of any measure to the right or left. As you make one
measure wider, the one to its right becomes narrower. (You can adjust
all measures in a system except the last one with this method.)
See Measure
layout.