Measures
See also Measure layout.
- Choose Edit > 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. PrintMusic will add a blank measure in every staff.
- Choose Measure > Insert Measure Stack or, if the Measure tool is selected, you can right-click on the top measure handle and choose Insert Measure Stack. The Insert Measures 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. SeeSelecting 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 DELETE or choose Edit > Delete Measure Stack. This removes the selected measures from every staff.
In general, when you remove a measure from the score, PrintMusic 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.
- Choose 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. PrintMusic asks you how many times you want the selected music copied. The default value, once, is what you want.
- Click OK (or press ENTER). PrintMusic 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 above).
- Choose 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.
- Choose the Measure tool . A handle appears on every barline.
- In Page View, 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.
