• The Rehearsal mark tool handles rehearsal marks.  Click anywhere in a measure to add a rehearsal mark.  When selecting an existing rehearsal mark, a property panel appears, letting you choose the details of rehearsal marks.
• The Text tool is used to add a single style text block. Its shortcut is X.  A text block can be associated with the page or with a specific measure.  If associated with a measure, the text will follow that measure when the music reflows, for instance during a new page layout setup.  The property panel of a text block lets you edit the text content, its font, color and alignment options.  For measure text blocks, you can specify a manual positioning, which lets you position the text block independently of the layout engine.  You can associate a playback value (tempo value), associate it with a specific layer, and specify if this symbol must be included in the score individual parts.
• The Rich Text tool is a more advanced text tool that includes mixed font styles, colors and alignment modes, as well as bullet lists, tabulation, line spacing, background, border, and text highlighting. The text is edited directly at its position on the page or close to its associated measure. Its property panel provides the interface to edit all its properties.
•   The Lyrics tool is used to enter the lyrics mode. Its shortcut is O. The lyrics cursor blinks under the current note. Existing lyrics have a light background color (different colors for the 8 possible lyrics lines) :

 

 

In lyrics mode, you can:

• • Type in new characters.
  • Use DEL or Backspace to delete a character.
  • Use left and right arrows to either move the caret inside the current lyric or to the previous/next note lyric.
  • Use up and down arrows are used to reach the 8 possible lyrics lines.
  • Use ENTER to go to the next lyric.
  • Use the spacebar to move to the next lyric (except in the middle of a lyric).
  • Use SHIFT + space to add a space inside the lyric without moving to the next.
  • Use the _ (underscore) to add/remove an automatic extension line for that lyric. It extends itself automatically, including all following notes that do not have a lyric for that line.
  • Use the - (hyphen) to add/remove a hyphen between this lyric and the next one.
  • Use TAB or SHIFT + TAB to go the next/previous lyric
  • Click in a lyric to set the text cursor position.
  • As a consequence of using the lyrics mode, many of the shortcuts defined elsewhere in this manual won’t work anymore, as the characters are used to enter lyrics.
  • The left property panel enables you to edit the lyrics font, color and alignment, either for all lyrics, the current lyrics line, or only the lyrics under the cursor. You can also enable lyric line numbering by clicking the Lyric Line Number and applying a numbering option. The checkbox Enable manual line positioning will display small handles to the left of the lyrics lines; you can drag them up/down to adjust the position of the lines.  Note that in this case, the layout engine won’t adjust the lines automatically anymore and you are responsible for placing the lines correctly.

 

The other items of the text menu provide 5 categories of predefined text symbols, commonly found in music scores.  Select one of them and click where you want to add it.  You can thereafter edit their properties in the left panel.

 

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The Chord Tool

 

The Chord tool is used for entering and editing chord symbols. Its shortcut is Q. Click to add a new chord symbol or click on an existing chord symbol to select its property panel, letting you edit the details of the chord symbol.

A chord may also have a fretboard diagram attached to it by checking the Show fretboard box in the chord property panel. When checked, this will display the chord’s default fretboard from the Compose chord library, if one is available. Checking Edit will let you modify a fretboard diagram with the following controls. Note that modifying the default fretboard will create a new fretboard, not replace the library’s default chord, and both will be available when the chord is used again in the score.

 

 

Editing a Fretboard

• Activate a note by clicking on a string and fret location.
• Click and drag horizontally to add a barre line.
• Click above a string to specify either an open string (o) or a muted string (x). This will remove any active fret marker on that string.
• Click below the diagram to toggle between fingering options.
• The … opens the fretboard diagram selection panel. This displays the available fretboard diagrams in the library for the given chord. Click anywhere on the panel to close it. 

 

The Assign missing diagrams button will add any missing diagrams in all chords of the current staff.

 

In the Display & Editing options of the Score menu, you will find a section entitled Chord symbol options where you can specify the fretboard size, the style of the fretboard position number and the barre style.  You can also edit the font used for the chord itself.