Properties & Editing pane

This pane is visible when the Right pane button Editing ≈ properties pane toolbar button selected is selected.
(It can also be enabled from the menu using View->Toolbars->Editing and putting a tick beside 'Editing').

Both Properties and Editing appear on separate tabs in this right pane. Right pane tabs Clicking on a tab label will swap tabs.

Properties tab

When the Properties tab first appears, it may be blank. Clicking on the following items on the score will show its properties:
Here is a Properties pane with a measure selected:

Properties tab

All of the properties shown may be changed, if some fine-tuning required.

Editing tab

This tab contains all the editing toolbars. Each toolbar can be opened or closed by clicking on its title e.g click on Structure or Embellishments to open or close those toolbars. If all are left open and the screen size is small, they will scroll.

Note: some of the toolbars such as embellishments and Symbols contain their own tabs. Clicking on a tab opens up the content on that tab.

Here is a fully opened Editing tab showing all the toolbars:

Editing tab
The five editing toolbars are:

Basic Toolbar - for adding notes and rests and performing basic grouping and simple operations on them.

Structure Toolbar - for fine-tuning the structure of a score. It can be used to add repeat barlines, DC markers, clefs time signatures etc.

Embellishments Toolbar - provides a wide range of mainly highland bagpipe but also sidedrum movements. The timing of each movement may be altered via the toolbar and custom embellishments can be added.

Dynamics & Articulations Toolbar - used for adding dynamics or articulations to existing notes.

Symbol Toolbar - used to add mainly EUSPBA style tenor flourish symbols but Custom symbols may also be added.



Button Behaviour


The buttons on a toolbar fall into one of two categories:
  1. press button and click on score (adding an item): used for adding items such as notes, clefs, barlines to the stave.  The button will latch in until either it is pressed again (to turn it off) or if another button is pressed. It will also switch off if the mouse moves outside the Editing Toolbar or the central score region.
    NB: It can also be deselected by pressing the Esc  keyboard button
  2. select on score and click button: (changing item): used for modifying, copying, deleting one or more existing items on the score e.g. beaming, dotting, adding articulations etc. The button doesn't latch for this type of operation (as it is a single-shot operation).
When nothing is selected, the toolbar will disable buttons that can't be used without first selecting one or more notes. e.g.:

Basic toolbar with nothing selected.

Here is the 'Basic' toolbar with no notes selected. You can see that only the buttons which allow a note or rest to be dropped on to the score (type 1 button above) are enabled. To use a button to change an item (type 2 button above) e.g. x2, a single note or rest must be selected. To beam  notes together, for example, the beam button will only enable when two or more notes have first been selected.

This approach is applied to all editing toolbars.
 Hopefully this will become obvious when you use them.
 
 
 
 

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