You can make adjustments to the note spacing at individual rhythmic positions independently of your project-wide settings.
When Note Spacing
is activated in the Engrave toolbox, the following are shown:
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Dashed lines that represent spacing columns.
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Note spacing handles: square handles on every staff for each spacing-significant item, such as notes, grace notes, rests, clefs, key signatures, and time signatures.
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System handles: larger square handles at the start/end of each system, which control the start/end horizontal position of individual systems. System handles are positioned on the top left and bottom right corners of each system.
Prerequisite
Note Spacing
is selected in the Engrave toolbox.
Procedure
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In Engrave mode, select a square note spacing handle on the dashed line at each rhythmic position whose spacing you want to adjust.
Result
The selected note spacing handles are moved, which increases/decreases the spacing to the left of their original rhythmic position. This also affects the spacing of each selected rhythmic position on all staves in the system. The color of the handles changes to indicate that you have moved them.
System breaks are automatically inserted at the start/end of each system in which you adjusted note spacing.
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Moving notes too far away from their intended rhythmic positions can be misleading for players reading the music.
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You can also adjust the spacing of individual notes/items independently of their rhythmic positions.
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When Note Spacing
is activated, you cannot select or edit anything other than note spacing handles. To resume normal selection and editing, click Graphic Editing
in the Engrave toolbox or return to Write mode.
Example
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