[sib-access] Re: Pick-up bar on each line
- From: "Claudio Sacco" <cl.sacco@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:42:55 +0200
Dear Dan
That is excellent. It is exactly the result I wanted. Sorry for not having
been able to explain better, what I was looking for.
With many thanks
Claudio
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> Claudio,
>
> I may have misunderstood what you want to do. In your
> original message you
> wrote:
>
> "In a four quarter score for children I would like to have
> each line starting with a pick-up bar of one quarter and of
> course the lines ending with a bar of three quarters."
>
> I assumed that you were asking how to add a pick-up bar to
> the start of the score and that you wanted that bar to appear
> in every part. However, I'm guessing from your reply that you
> meant otherwise.
>
> Just for the record, you can only have a pick-up bar at the
> beginning of a movement, the idea of a pick-up bar in the
> middle of a piece makes no sense.
>
> Also, the word line isn't very clear. I think you mean system?
>
> I'm now going to assume that what you really meant was:
>
> "I'm writing a score in four sections. Each section begins
> with a quarter note at the end of a bar. Is there way to have
> that quarter note at the beginning of a system (similar to a
> pick-up bar) and have the system before ending with a three
> quarter note bar. In other words, I want each section to be
> on a system all by itself."
>
> The answer is yes. Hymnals are often laid out like this when
> the phrases of the hymn always start on up-beats (e.g., Bach
> Chorales).
>
> All you need to do is select the note which you want to be at
> the beginning of the next system and then choose Plug-ins >
> Other > Split Bar.
>
> Make sure that the following check boxes are checked:
> Add system break at split
> Use same bar number for split bars.
>
> Press the OK button.
>
> What happens is that the bar containing the note you selected
> is split into two new bars. The first bar will be three
> quarter notes long and the second bar will only be one
> quarter note long. A consequence of this is that the note in
> the quarter note bar will have a rhythmic position of quarter 1.
>
> A bar number change is added to the one quarter note bar so
> that it has the same bar number as the three quarter note
> bar. This is done to ensure that the two shorter bars are
> treated as one. This means that the same bar number will
> appear twice as you arrow through the score.
>
> A system break is added at the end of the three quarter note
> bar. This makes sure that the one quarter note bar is at the
> start of the next system.
>
> Hope this is clear,
>
> Dan Rugman
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