Are their options for smaller notes? Two different applications: 1. Smaller notes inserted on same staff with normal sized notes to add an alternate/optional melodic change. 2. Can I make an entire staff and/or the notes thereon smaller in a score, i.e. the piano accompaniment of a vocal or choral score? Thank you. David
Sometimes I want to connect notes with a dotted/broken slur signifying it only applies to some of the verses of underlying text. But I can't find that symbol. Thanks. (I have adjusted the lyrics so they line up correctly/differently from verse to verse.)
Thanks, Mike! I had inserted the triplets by highlighting each group of notes and clicking the triplets button. Going back and highlighting a triplet then didn't give me the option of making it invisible (since no marker showed to highlight for options). Whew. Thank you!
I'm working on O Holy Night which is in Common Time, but much of the right hand piano accompaniment is in triplets (looks like it's 12/8). To get the other staves to line up properly, I must mark the triplets (actually six notes beamed, i.e. one beam for two triplets), but it seems to be a lot of tedious work AND it looks quite messy. Isn't there a way to make the triple symbols invisible (after the first measure and adding the word simile)? Thank you.
Thanks, Mike. Yes, that would work, too. But I like the cleaner look of the half note head replacing the 8th note head (two stems on same note head) even though it's more difficult to put in.
Thank you, William. I tried both methods you suggested--text vs. layer staff--and chose layered staff. Layering turned out to be easier in the long run, though playback doesn't matter to me (I've never used that feature; I'm always just printing scores) and I still had to make the note head blank for the 8th note so the open head half note of the layered staff would show. It took me a while to find and set a User font to the font that includes note heads in its character set and change the font size many times until it matched the other note heads (at least I'd only have to do that once), then manually placing the text--horizontally, then vertically different for each different half note (this one a G, that one an F, etc.)--after copying and pasting one already inserted. Another plus--with layering I could add a stem in the opposite direction of the beamed stems. Thanks! I'll get the hang of this pretty soon.
I have a series of triplets--actually two triplets or 6 notes per beam--and want the first note to be held as a half note, i.e. throughout all 6 beamed notes. How can I make the first note an open note head like a half note? Thank you. --David
