The General page on the Layout tab of the Layout Settings dialog allows you to adjust general settings.
To open the General page, do one of the following:
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Select . Click General.
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On the Score Editor toolbar, click the Layout field to open the Layouts pane, and click Settings. In the Layout Settings dialog, click Layout, and then General.
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On the Visibility tab of the Score Editor, click Settings. In the Layout Settings dialog, click Layout, and then General.
The following options are available:
- Name
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Allows you to enter or change the name of the active layout.
- Layout Type
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The layout type that defines the default options for the display of specific score elements, such as the stave size and the appearance of instrument labels.
NoteThe Layout Type that you selected when adding the layout cannot be changed afterwards.
Full Score layouts typically include all tracks of a project. Full score layouts are concert pitch by default.
Part layouts are designed for single instruments. They are transposed pitch by default.
- Transposition
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Shows the transposition type for the active layout:
Concert notates the notes as they sound.
Transposed notates the pitches that the instrument plays, rather than the desired sounding pitch. This is especially important for transposing instruments.
NotePitches are only shown as transposed if the Transposed Pitch view option is activated in the Score menu.