Changing the type and appearance of absolute tempo changes

You can change which components are included in individual absolute tempo changes, and how they appear. For example, if you want to show only parenthesized metronome marks in some tempo marks and only text in other tempo marks.

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 absolute tempo marks whose components you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate any of the following properties in the Tempo group:

    • Text shown

    • Metronome mark shown

    • Parenthesized

    • Is approximate

    • Approximate appearance (only available when Is approximate is activated)

    • Show equals sign (only available when Is approximate is activated)

Result

The selected tempo marks are changed to include the corresponding components.

When all properties are deactivated, tempo marks are hidden and indicated by signposts.