Showing brackets around one/all noteheads in tie chains

You can change whether brackets appear only on the first notehead in tie chains or span the entire duration of the tie chain; that is, with the left bracket on the first notehead and the right bracket on the last notehead in the tie chain. By default, brackets appear only on the first notehead in tie chains.

Prerequisite

You have shown brackets on the required notes.
The lower zone is shown.
Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.
If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

Procedure

Select the notes whose notehead bracket positions relative to tie chains you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
In the Properties panel, activate/deactivate Bracket until end of tie chain in the Bracketed Noteheads group.

Result

Brackets appear at the start and end of the selected tie chains when Bracket until end of tie chain is activated, and only around the first note/chord when it is deactivated.

If you activated Bracket until end of tie chain for a single note in a bracketed chord, the bracket on the first chord is not split but an additional bracket appears at the end of the tie chain for the selected note only. If you deactivated Bracket until end of tie chain for a single note in a bracketed chord whose other notes are bracketed to the end of the tie chain, the bracket at the end of the tie chain is split.

If you selected notes on tablature, the automatic brackets shown around the second note/chord and all subsequent notes/chords in tie chains are updated to follow your property setting.

Example


Figure 1. Brackets around only the first chords in tie chains on a notation staff	Figure 2. Brackets at the start and end of whole tie chains on a notation staff
Figure 3. Brackets around only the first chord in a tie chain, with automatic brackets shown on the second chord on tablature	Figure 4. Brackets around the start and end of the whole tie chain on tablature