Changing individual slurs to flat slurs

Although they are not often used as standard, some publishers use flat slurs in order to reduce the vertical space occupied by slurs. You can change individual slurs to flat slurs. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains.

Note

Not all slurs look good as flat slurs, but it would also be unusual only to use flat slurs once or twice in a project. Therefore, we recommend that you avoid changing the curvature style for only one or two slurs in a project.

Prerequisite

  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

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

Procedure

  1. Select the slurs whose curvature style you want to change.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Curvature type in the Slurs group.
  3. Choose one of the following options:

    • Normal (curved)

    • Flat

Result

The curvature style of the selected slurs is changed. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.