Allowing/Disallowing hairpins across barlines

You can allow/disallow hairpins across barlines when they end on the first note in the next bar, for example, so all hairpins appear the same length across multiple staves that do not all have barline joins. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only or for all layouts and frame chains.

Prerequisite

You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

Procedure

  1. Select the hairpins you want to allow/disallow across barlines.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Barline interaction in the Dynamics group.
  3. Choose one of the following options:
    • Stop before

    • Continue

Result

The selected hairpins are allowed across barlines when you choose Continue, and disallowed when you choose Stop before. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.