Changing the length of fingering slides

You can change the length of individual fingering slides and show them either joining the source and destination fingerings or with a fixed length before the destination note, independently of your project-wide maximum distance threshold. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.
Note

These steps only apply to fingerings belonging to fretted instruments.

Prerequisite

  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

  • Graphic Editing Graphic Editing button is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

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

Procedure

  1. In Engrave mode, select the fingering slides whose length you want to change.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Slide type in the Fingering and Positions group.
  3. Choose one of the following options:

    • To show fingering slides between the fingerings at the start/end, choose Join.

    • To show fixed length fingering slides before the destination fingerings, choose Destination only.

Result

The length of the selected fingering slides is changed. 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 threshold above which all fingering slides are only shown before the destination note rather than joining the fingerings at their start/end in the Fingering Slides section of the Fingering page in Engraving Options.

Example

Figure 1. Join
Figure 2. Destination only