Inputting ornaments/trills with the popover
You can input ornaments, trills, and jazz ornaments using the ornaments popover, both during note input and by adding them to existing notes. When inputting trills, you can specify the trill interval, such as a minor third.
Procedure
-
In Write mode, do one of the following:
-
Start note input.
-
Select an item on each staff at the rhythmic position where you want to input an ornament. If you want to input a trill with a specific duration, select items that span the required duration.
-
- Optional: During note input, if you want to input notes and notations onto multiple staves, extend the caret to those staves.
-
Open the ornaments popover in any of the following ways:
-
Press Shift-O.
-
In the Notations toolbox, click Popovers
, then Ornaments
.
-
-
Enter the appropriate entry for the ornament you want into the popover.
For example, enter tr m3 for a trill with a minor third interval or mor for a mordent.
- Press Return to close the popover.
- Optional: When inputting trills during note input, input a note or press Space to advance the caret and input the trill.
Result
During note input, ornaments are input at the caret position on all staves across which the caret extends. Trills span the duration of the rhythmic value of the note input at the caret position or the duration by which the caret advanced.
Ornaments added to existing music are input on each selected staff, at the rhythmic position of the earliest selected either note or item, according to your item input position setting. Trills span the duration of either only notes or any items on each selected staff, according to your item input position setting.
Trills have a default interval of a second, either major or minor depending on the context. If you specified an interval for your trill, the interval applies only to the first note in the selection, but you can also change the interval partway through trills.
You can choose to input a separate trill for each selected note in .