Staff Borders

Staff Properties, Size and Borders, Change Borders

Purpose

Use Staff Borders to change line thickness of a staff's grid and to change the distance between limb groups.

Steps

1. In the Staff Properties dialog, choose the Size and Borders tab, then choose Change Borders.
2. To change line thickness,
   type new values in the Border Width box. You can give different values for vertical lines, horizontal lines, lines inside the grid and outer lines enclosing the staff or its groups.

   To change the distance between limb groups,
   type a new value in the Space between Groups edit field.

   To set the line thickness for bar lines and cell split lines,
   choose the line style, you want to change: Regular, Medium or Thick. The choose by which factor the regular line width should be multiplied for that style.

   When changing the line thickness, it may be necessary to adjust the distance of bar lines to the cell borders.

Note: In most cases, the multiplication factor should be left at 1.0 for the Regular style.

3. Choose the Default check box if you want to use your new settings as default settings for new documents.
4. Choose to which areas of the document the new settings are to apply:
   • Current Staff.
   • Current Staff and Forward.
     Changes will be applied from the current staff up to the end of the document.
   • Selected Staffs.
     This option is only available if staffs were selected.
   • Document.
     Changes will be applied to all staffs within the document.
5. Choose OK.

See Also

Scale Staff