Grouped staves have an important characteristic:
instead of drawing barlines only on the staves, the barlines can either
be drawn through or between staves in a group.
Make sure you’re in Scroll View before
you begin; if you’re not, choose Scroll View from the View menu (in case staves have been hidden).
- Click the Staff tool
. The Staff menu
appears.
- If you haven’t yet created the group, do so
now. See Groups-To group staves.
- Click a group handle, then, from the Staff menu, choose Edit Group
Attributes. Or, double-click a group handle.
(Or, choose Edit Group Attributes from the Staff menu without selecting
a group.) To display the attributes of another group, use the arrow controls
to select another Group ID number.
- Use the Draw Barlines drop-down menu in the Group Attributes dialog box to specify
how you want barlines to appear for this group. To draw the barline
only within each staff, and not connect each staff with the barline, choose
Only on Staves from the drop-down menu. To draw a barline as one
continuous line passing through all the staves in the group, choose Through
Staves. To draw a barline between staves, but not through the staff lines
themselves, choose Only Between Staves (Mensurstriche).
- Click OK to confirm your barline settings.
