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Shape Designer menu

How to get there

Click the Expression tool , and double-click a note or measure. Or, with the Text Tool highlight the handle of a text block and select custom frame from the Text menu. Click Shape; Create; Select; Create. You arrive in the Shape Designer, and this menu appears at the top of the dialog box.

What it does

The Shape Designer menu contains a number of commands that help you create your own custom musical shapes. For example, it lets you specify how thick a line is, what kind of shading should fill a rectangle, whether a line should be dashed or solid, and so on. It also contains commands for manipulating individual objects in your drawing—for grouping them together, rearranging their front-to-back order, and so on.

 

Show

Rulers

Grid

Origin

Staff Template

Send to Back

Bring to Front

Group

Ungroup

Select Font

Line Style

Solid

Dashed

Line Thickness

None

Hairline

.5 pt

1 pt

1.5 pt

2 pt

5 pt

Other

Arrowheads

Fill

None

White

25%

50%

75%

Black

Other

Bracket Style

Rulers and Grid

 

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