Changing the size of notes/items

Dorico Pro Help

Product
Dorico Pro
Version
5.1
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English
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You can change the size of individual notes and items using the default scale sizes for cues, grace notes, a custom scale size, or a custom scale size in addition to a default scale size. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

Tip
  • To make all notes, items, and staves proportionally larger/smaller, you can change the staff size.

  • If you want to make notes smaller to represent grace notes or cues, you can input them as either grace notes or cues instead.

  • You can change the size of all notes project-wide by changing the notehead design on the Notes page in Engraving Options. However, these options offer less flexibility than changing the size of notes individually.

  • You can change the default size of many text-based notations, such as rehearsal marks and chord symbols, project-wide by editing the corresponding font style or paragraph style.

Prerequisite

  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

  • If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing Graphic Editing button is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

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

Procedure

  1. Select the notes/items whose size you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate any of the following properties in the Common group:
    • To use a default scale size, activate Scale.

    • To use a custom scale size, activate Custom scale.

    • To use a custom scale size based on a default scale size, activate both Scale and Custom scale.

  3. Optional: If you activated Scale, select one of the following options from the menu:
    • Normal

    • Grace

    • Cue

    • Cue grace

  4. Optional: If you activated Custom scale, change the value in the value field.

Result

The size of the selected notes/items is changed. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

  • If you activated Scale, the selected notes/items are changed to the selected default scale size.

  • If you activated Custom Scale, the selected notes/items are changed to the custom percentage scale size you set.

  • If you activated both Scale and Custom Scale, the selected notes/items are changed to the custom percentage scale size of the selected default scale size. For example, if you selected Grace for Scale then set Custom Scale to 50, the size of the selected notes/items is half the size of grace notes.