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Notation reference
Pedal lines
Pedal lines indicate to performers which piano pedals to use, and can also give performance instructions, such as how far down to depress the pedals and when to lift the pedal to clear the resonance.
Pedal line start signs, hooks, and continuation lines
Pedal lines normally comprise a start sign, a continuation line, and an end hook. This indicates clearly to performers where to depress each type of pedal, how long to keep it depressed, and where to lift it.
Changing the line width of pedal lines
You can change the thickness of continuation lines individually, independently of your project-wide settings. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

Changing the line width of pedal lines

You can change the thickness of continuation lines individually, independently of your project-wide settings. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

Prerequisite

The lower zone is shown.
Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.
Graphic Editing is selected in the Engrave toolbox.
You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

Procedure

In Engrave mode, select the pedal lines whose continuation line thickness you want to change.
In the Properties panel, activate Line width in the Pedal Lines group.

The value resets to 0 automatically when you first activate the property.
Change the value in the value field.

Result

Increasing Line width makes pedal continuation lines thicker, decreasing the value makes pedal continuation lines thinner. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

Tip

You can change the default thickness for all pedal continuation lines project-wide in the Design section of the Pedal Lines page in Engraving Options.