Changing the beat grouping for cut common time signatures

You can change the beat grouping of individual cut common time signatures, independently of your per-flow setting. For example, if you want some cut common time signatures, such as 2/2, to group notes and rests in the same ways as common time signatures, such as 4/4.

Prerequisite

  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

  • If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing Graphic Editing button is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

Procedure

  1. Select the cut common time signatures whose beat grouping you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate/deactivate Use common time note grouping in the Time Signatures group.

Result

The selected cut common time signatures use common time beat grouping when Use common time note grouping is activated, and cut common time beat grouping when it is deactivated.

Tip

You can change the beat grouping for all cut common time signatures in each flow independently in Notation Options > Note Grouping > Time Signatures With Half-bars.