Staff Attributes dialog box
How to get there
- Choose the Staff tool
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- Choose Staff > Edit Staff Attributes. Or, double-click a staff handle, or a staff name handle.
What it does
In the Staff Attributes dialog box, you can specify several staff-specific traits for the staff whose handle you clicked, including its name and transposition.
- Staff Attributes for: Arrow controls. These arrows appear to the right of the staff name popup menu, making it easy for you to move consecutively through the staves to select staff attributes. Click the arrows to change staves instead of choosing a new staff name from the popup menu.
- Break barlines between staves. Normally, when you group some staves together, the barlines are drawn continuously through them (including the blank spaces between them). Select this option if you want barlines—both normal and repeat barlines—not to continue through to the next staff above this one. (If this staff isn’t part of a staff group, you won’t notice any difference. You group staves by selecting their handles with the Staff tool and double-clicking one of the selected handles. See Bracket Attributes dialog box.)
- Hide Staff. Select this option to hide the current staff and move the other staves accordingly. Use this control when you want to hide a staff you’ve created that contains playback effects such as written out trills or tremolos. The word “(hidden)” appears in staff lists next to the staff name for any staves that are hidden.
- Display Repeat Endings. This checkbox shows repeat endings on the staff. Deselect this checkbox for the lower staff of a piano staff, for example.
- Display Measure Numbers. This checkbox determines whether or not PrintMusic will show measure numbers on this staff.
- Redisplay Accidentals in Other Layers Within Measures. Choose this option to display accidentals on notes that appear for the first time within a particular layer within a measure. For example, if an A# appears in layer 1 on beat one and in layer 2 on beat 3, PrintMusic does not, by default, display the accidental on the layer 2 note. Choosing this option displays the accidental on the layer 2 note.
- Alternate Notation •
Select. Use this checkbox and select button to set alternate notation for the entire staff. See Alternate Notation dialog box.
- OK • Cancel. Click OK (or press RETURN) to confirm, or Cancel to discard, the settings you’ve made in this dialog box and return to the score.
