On the Layout tab, you can change various aspects of each layout, such as page size, staff size, or margins, and how the music appears and is laid out, such as note spacing or staff labels.
To open the Layout tab, do one of the following:
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Select .
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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.
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On the Visibility tab of the Score Editor, click Settings. In the Layout Settings dialog, click Layout.
The Layout tab contains the following pages:
- General
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Allows you to adjust general settings, such as layout name, and transposition.
- Page Setup
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Allows you to set the page size, the distance between staff lines, and the page margins.
- Staves and Systems
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Allows you to specify how to display staff labels, and to define the number of bars per system as well as the systems per page.
- Chord Symbols
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Allows you to adjust the position and placement of chord symbols.
- Bar Rests
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Allows you to define how to show/hide bar rests and whether to consolidate empty bars into multi-bar rests.
- Time Signatures
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Allows you to specify how to display time signatures.
- Markers and Timecode
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Allows you to adjust the position of markers and timecodes.
- Note Spacing
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Allows you to adjust the positions of notes and rests relative to each other, and the automatic gaps between them.
- Vertical Spacing
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Allows you to set the staff visibility for empty staves.