Changing the thickness of slurs

Dorico Pro Help

Product
Dorico Pro
Version
4.3
Language
English
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Webhelp
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You can change the thickness of individual slurs, including changing the thickness of the middle of slurs independently of the ends of slurs, independently of your project-wide settings. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

Prerequisite

  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

  • Graphic Editing Graphic Editing button is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

  • You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

Procedure

  1. In Engrave mode, select the slurs whose thickness you want to change.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate the following properties, individually or together, in the Slurs group:
    • End thickness

    • Middle thickness

  3. Change the values in the value fields.

Result

Increasing the values makes the corresponding part of the selected slurs thicker, decreasing the values makes the corresponding part of the selected slurs thinner. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

Tip
  • Deactivating the properties returns the corresponding part of the selected slurs to their default thickness.

  • You can change the default thickness of all slurs project-wide on the Slurs page in Engraving Options.