Changing the size of individual staves

You can change the staff size of individual staves independently of other staves and your layout settings. For example, piano accompaniment parts often include the solo line of the instrument the piano is accompanying on a smaller staff.

Figure: A piano part with smaller viola staff above

You can change the size of individual staves to a set scale size, expressed as a percentage of the normal staff size in the layout, or set a custom scale.

Note

• Changing the staff size of individual staves affects the staff size of all instruments held by that player.

• Changing the staff size of individual staves affects its size for the whole flow.

• If the size of system object font styles is set to Staff-relative, the staff size of the top staff in each instrument family group affects the size of system objects if they are shown above that bracketed group. Font styles that are set to Absolute are unaffected by staff size.

1. Select an item on the staff whose size you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
   Note

   You can only change the size of a single staff at a time.

2. Change the staff size in any of the following ways:

   • Choose Edit > Staff Size > 60%.

   • Choose Edit > Staff Size > 75%.

   • Choose Edit > Staff Size > 100%.

   • Choose Edit > Staff Size > Custom Staff Size.

   Tip

   You can also choose these options from the context menu.

3. Optional: If you choose Custom Staff Size, you must set the staff size using the Custom Staff Size dialog that opens.