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Notation reference
Dynamics
Dynamics indicate the loudness of the music and can be combined with expressive text to give further clarification about how to perform the music. Dynamics can indicate an immediate change in volume or a gradual change over a specified duration.
Gradual dynamics
Gradual dynamics indicate a change in volume that happens incrementally over the specified duration. They usually appear either as hairpins or as text instructions, such as cresc. or dim..
Abbreviating gradual dynamics
You can show individual gradual dynamics with either abbreviated or full text, such as cresc. or crescendo. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

Abbreviating gradual dynamics

You can show individual gradual dynamics with either abbreviated or full text, such as cresc. or crescendo. 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.
If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing is selected in the Engrave toolbox.
You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

Procedure

Select the gradual dynamics that you want to abbreviate. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
In the Properties panel, activate Abbreviate in the Dynamics group.
Activate/Deactivate the corresponding checkbox.

Result

The selected gradual dynamics appear with abbreviated text when the checkbox is activated, and full text when the checkbox is deactivated. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.