Optical spacing for cross-staff beams
Normally, the human eye perceives the evenness of rhythmic spacing according to the distance between noteheads. However, for cross-staff beams we consider the distance between stems, rather than the noteheads, to be even/uneven.
You can make stems, rather than noteheads, evenly spaced by activating Use optical spacing for beams between staves for layouts in your project that contain cross-staff beams on the Note Spacing page in .
You can open Layout Options in any of the following ways:
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Press Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-L in any mode.
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Choose
in Setup mode. -
Click Layout Options at the bottom of the Layouts panel in Setup mode.
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Right-click an instrumental part or a full score in the Layouts panel and choose Layout Options from the context menu.