Claudio, I think that if you go to the engraving rules in the styles menu and work on notes, you may be able to force them to have a fixed distance between them. At least a fixed minimum distance. I don't know if you'd be able to set a different spacing for 8th notes, vs. 16th notes, etc. But that may be the place to look. Have you scanned through the Sibelius User Manual for something like "fixed note spacing"? Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claudio Sacco" <cl.sacco@xxxxxxxx> To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 12:36 Subject: [sib-access] Rhythmic exercises and note spacing Hi everybody I want to write rhythmic exercises for my pupils and have Sibelius not take care of note spacing rules. Sounds strange this sentence, so here a description just as example (measures indicated are just for the purpose of explaination): I want to have quarter notes always written in a distance of 16 MM and stay at 16 MM, no matter how many eights notes or sixteenths notes are written. or eights notes in a distance of 8 mm no matter how many sixteenths notes are written. In other words: I would like, that the distances between notes expresses something about the rhythmic duration and this in the same way for the whole exercise. I hope, that I could explain this right. I there a way with Sib-access to control this. I know, that sited people do this by adjusting barlines and note spacing with the mouse. Many thanks for an advice. Regards Claudio If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx