Changing the length of grace note slashes

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Dorico Pro
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5.1
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You can change the length of slashes on grace note stems individually, independently of your project-wide setting. 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 grace notes whose slash length you want to change.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate the following properties, individually or together, in the Grace Notes group:

    • Slash length

    • Slash protrusion from beam (beamed grace notes only)

    Note

    Grace note slashes seem to disappear when you activate Slash length because activating the property resets the value to 0.

  3. Change the length and/or protrusion of the selected slashes by changing the values in the corresponding value fields.

Result

Increasing Slash length lengthens grace note slashes on both single grace notes and grace note beams, decreasing the value shortens grace note slashes.

Increasing Slash protrusion from beam increases how far slashes extend beyond grace note beams, decreasing the value decreases how far slashes extend beyond grace note beams.

If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

Tip

You can change the default appearance of all grace note slashes project-wide in Engraving Options > Notes > Grace Notes.