Changing the erasure padding of dynamics

You can change the erasure padding of individual dynamics, including changing the padding between dynamics and each edge of their erased areas independently. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only or for all layouts and frame chains.

Erasure padding considers the prefix/suffix separately from immediate dynamics and also takes into account ascenders/descenders in the text. This can cause the erasure padding to appear larger below the dynamic than above, such as for “espressivo” due to the “p”. In such cases, you can change the padding on the affected edge to make the padding appear symmetrical.

Prerequisite

  • Graphic Editing is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

  • You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

Procedure

  1. In Engrave mode, select the dynamics whose erasure padding you want to change.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate the Erasure padding properties, individually or together, in the Dynamics group.

    • L changes the padding between dynamics and their left edge.

    • R changes the padding between dynamics and their right edge.

    • T changes the padding between dynamics and their top edge.

    • B changes the padding between dynamics and their bottom edge.

  3. Change the values in the value fields.

Result

Increasing the values increases the padding, decreasing the values decreases the padding. This also affects the area considered for collision avoidance. 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 erasure padding of all dynamics project-wide in the Appearance section of the Dynamics page in Engrave > Engraving Options. However, this does not allow you to change the padding of each edge independently.