Hiding/Showing ledger lines

You can hide/show ledger lines on individual notes, for example, if you want to indicate approximate pitches using the relative vertical positions of notes. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only or for all layouts and frame chains.

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 noteheads whose ledger lines you want to hide/show.
    Note

    If you want to hide ledger lines, you must also select all other noteheads in the same voice and voice column index.

  2. In the Properties panel, activate/deactivate Hide ledger lines in the Notes and Rests group of the Properties panel.

Result

Ledger lines are hidden/shown for the selected notes. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

If you deactivated Hide ledger lines for only some notes in a chord, ledger lines are also shown on all notes between the selected notes and the staff in the same voice and voice column index.