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.

Procedure

  1. Select the hairpins you want to allow/disallow across barlines. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  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 in the current layout when you choose Continue, and disallowed in the current layout when you choose Stop before.

Deactivating the property returns the selected hairpins to your project-wide setting.

Note

  • Changing the appearance of individual gradual dynamics only affects their appearance in the current layout, but you can copy property settings to other layouts.

  • You can find the project-wide option that allows/disallows all hairpins to cross barlines by clicking Advanced Options in the Gradual Dynamics section of the Dynamics page in Engrave > Engraving Options. You can also change the minimum distance before hairpins are allowed to extend beyond barlines in the Horizontal Position section of the Dynamics page.