Editing palette

The editing palette is a set of toolbars that you can easily switch on and off. It has three components:

• A top toolbar
• A top panel
• A bottom panel

The top and bottom panel each have a set of 6 toolbars. You can select the toolbar you want either from the top pull-down or from the set of icons at the top of the panel.

Top toolbar

The top toolbar is a set of links to editing dialogs. From left to right:

• The current section's properties dialog
• The current instrument's definition dialog
• The current system's properties dialog
• The current stave's properties dialog
• The document's page layout
• The book's settings and metadata dialog
• The document's fonts dialog

Flags toolbar

The flags toolbar allows you to pick the current flag value: round note, quarter-note, etc. You can also set the mode: binary or ternary. You can also modify the default chords grouping, and force a flag to be shown or hidden. The other buttons allow you to increase or decrease an existing flag value, or cut a chord into two chords with even flag values. Finally, two buttons allow you to reformat an instrument's data (F12) or the system's data (Control+F12) to recalculate bar line positions.

Bar lines toolbar

The barlines toolbar allows you to insert different types of bar lines, either with or without repeats. You can also use it to skip a barline from the count of bars, add a full bar value rest, or a bar that represents multiple rest bars.

Notation toolbar

This toolbar is only active in notation mode. It allows you to manipulate notation specific properties. The following actions are included in the toolbar:

• Recalculate notation values, i.e. intervals and alterations for the current instrument. You may want to use this if you first transcribed in tablature mode or if you changed the key signature for the section.
• Set the selected note to be an octava. The note will display one octave up, with an 8va glyph.
• Octaved note: display a small note one octave up from the main one. For instance for Baroque guitar music on octaved courses.
• Display the current note in a smaller font
• Show the string number of the current note.
• Show the current note as an harmonic using a square style note
• Tie the current note using a curve under the note
• Tie the current note using a curve above the note
• Reverse the note's stem direction
• Offset the notes in the current chord starting at the current note position
• Raise current note by a 1/2 step
• Lower current note by a 1/2 step
• Hide the alteration on the current note
• Switch alteration, i.e. make a G sharp an A flat
• Link note to both the upper and upper voice groups
• Increase the note duration within a chord
• Decrease the note duration within a chord
• Dot the current note's value within a chord
• Double dot the current note's value within a chord
• Show rest value on the opposite voice group
• Hide a chord
• Toggle horizontal/sloped gruppetto styles
• Toggle flag beam direction for following chords
• Format flag beam direction for the instrument
• Remove falg beam switches
• Center all rests

Meta-events toolbar

Meta-events are non-audible events such as signatures, clefs, chord names, graphic ornaments. The following metaevents are included in the toolbar:

• Insert a new time signature
• Insert a new clef
• Insert an indication for different endings
• Insert a continuo indication
• Insert a chord name: Am7, etc.
• Fermata
• Reprise
• Segno
• Petite reprise
• Da Capo
• Caption
• Lyric
• Insert a footnote
• Tempo change
• Insert a MIDI controller event
• Graphic ornament
• Hyperlink to a WEB page or a different location within the document
• Add initial time signature to the section on all instruments

Chords toolbar

The chords toolbar allows you to modify whole chords. You can modifiy the default position of a chord left or right, increase or decrease the default font size, insert a chord effect such as a strumming indication or a breath. You can also use it to change the basic shape of the notes in subsequent chords.

Dynamics toolbar

Inserts dynamics indications: forte, piano, etc. Inserts pedal and legato indications

• Piano, forte, sforzando indications
• Insert a pedal
• Insert a crescendo / decrescendo
• Insert a rasgueado wavy line
• Insert a legato curve from the dialog
• Insert a straight legato or tenuto line from the current cursor position - This is very useful for indications of tenuto in lute music

Phrasing toolbar

This is a slur editing toolbar with various options. All slurs are note dependent.

• Add a one step slur starting under the note
• Add a one step slur starting above the note
• Increase the horizontal value of the slur - up to 16 steps
• Decrease the horizontal value of the slur
• Lower the ending position of the slur
• Raise the ending position of the slur
• Toggle slur position
• Toggle slur style from curved to straightline
• Toggle wide slur option
• Increase/Decrease slur depth
• Make the slur a guitar style "pull up"
• Make the slur a guitar style "hammer on"
• Make the slur a guitar style "slide"
• Show a tenuto straight line to the next note on the same string
• Show a tenuto dotted line
• Open the slur editor dialog
• Enter an horizontally defined action:
  • Ending
  • Free text
  • String number
  • Trill
  • Horizontal bracket facing up
  • Horizontal bracket facing down
  • Arm. indication
  • H. indication
  • Pedal indication
  • Horizontal wavy line
  • Horizontal curved line
• Delete slur

Fingerings toolbar

Fingerings:

• Insert a barré indication
• Right-hand fingerings:
  • pima
  • Plectrum indication: up and down
  • Bowing up and down
  • Tap on or pulled string indication
  • Rotate position of right-hand fingering
• Left-hand fingerings:
  • 1 to 5 (plus thumb for guitar)
  • Rotate left-hand fingering position
• Insert extended horizontal action
• Show string number of note in notation mode - shows zero if the string is not fretted
• Rotate string number position

Ornaments toolbar

Insert an ornament at the current note position. Ornaments are customizable, i.e. you can select a custom glyph for each ornament, both in tablature and notation mode. To see which ornaments are available, see the instrument definition documentation. This toolbar shows the custom glyphs as well as some buttons to several actions:

• Access the ornament definition dialog
• Input a custom grace note
• Adjust an existing ornament's position and values
• Insert a floating ornament: this is a glyph without musical value
• Swap ornament: allows you to switch all ornaments of the same type to another type

Note effects

This toolbar includes ornaments that affect a single note, and duplicates in part the ornaments toolbar. The toolbar does not show custom glyphs but the traditional representation of the ornament in regular notation mode. Additionally, several buttons allow you to affect notes:

• Insert a vertical bar between two notes on a chord (tablature only)
• Insert a slanting left slash between two notes on a chord (tablature only)
• Insert a slanting right slash between two notes on a chord (tablature only)
• Make a note a melody note with a different color. The color is defined in the instrument definition's Fonts & color tab.
• Make the note transparent
• Show the note in a smaller font
• Offset the note's position to the left
• Offset the note's position to the right
• Show the note in parentheses
• Show the note in brackets

Brackets

This toolbar allow for the insertion of brackets that may span several instruments in a system.

• Insert an ending indication
• Insert a vertical bracket
• Insert an inverted L bracket
• Insert an L bracket
• Insert a fancy bracket
• Insert a curly bracket
• Insert a parentesis
• Switch the orientation fo the bracket right or left
• Decrease the height of the bracket
• Remove the bracket
• Open the bracket editing dialog

Pedals toolbar

Insert a pedal action on an existing note. Pedal definitions are set in the instrument definition pedal tab. A definition must exist for the pedal to be available in this toolbar. You can define up to 10 pedals. The default names can be overridden in the instrument definition dialog. The toolbar shows default names: 1 to 6 for foot pedals, plus left-knee-left, left-knee-right and right-knee-left, right-knee-right

Floating toolbars

On each panel, there is a button that allows you to detach a toolbar and display it in floating mode on the screen. This allows you to display 4 toolbars from the palettes at the same time.