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Measure Assignment for Ossia Measure dialog box

How to get there

You can access the Measure Assignment for Ossia Measure dialog box in two ways, depending on whether you are working in Page or Scroll view:

Choose Window > Advanced Tools. Click the Ossia tool .
In Page View, double-click the measure to which you want it attached (or double-click if there’s already a floating measure attached to it). The Ossia Designer dialog box appears.
Click Attach to Measure.
Click OK.

Or,

Choose Window > Advanced Tools. Click the Ossia tool .
In Scroll View, click the measure.
Click OK in the Ossia Designer dialog box.

You can also access this dialog box if the Ossia measure is already in the score:

Choose Window > Advanced Tools. Click the Ossia tool .
Click the measure to which it’s assigned and SHIFT+double-click its handle.

What it does

There are two distinctly different kinds of "ossia" measures. One kind of floating measure (called a page-assigned ossia measure, which you can create only in Page View) is attached permanently to a particular place on the page, where it will remain even if the "real" music around it is repositioned. The other, called a measure-assigned ossia measure, has a position that remains fixed relative to the measure to which it is attached, even if the measure’s position on the page changes. In this dialog box, you specify a measure-assigned floating measure’s precise positioning in relation to the "real" measure to which it’s attached.

Distance from Beginning of Measure: H: • V:. The numbers in these text boxes determine the precise position of the floating measure in relation to the "real" measure to which it’s attached. A positive H: (horizontal) number moves the measure to the right; a positive V: (vertical) number moves the measure upward. (Keep in mind, however, that you can also move the floating measure into position in the score by dragging its handle.) If H: and V: were both set at zero, the floating measure would be squarely superimposed over the "real" measure.
OK • Cancel. Click OK to confirm, or Cancel to discard, the settings you’ve made in this dialog box; you return to the score.