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CHAPTER 10<br />

More About Music Input and Editing<br />

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to begin and choose Add repeat section from the contextual menu that appears. A<br />

repeat section marking appears.<br />

In the textbox that appears at the beginning of the repeat section, a number can<br />

be entered. It is of course possible to write anything in the textbox, and there are<br />

only two rules for writing repeat numbers:<br />

• Any letter or combination of letters can be inserted between the numbers (such as “1<br />

(Primo) and 2 (Secondo)” and <strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong> will still play back the piece correctly (in<br />

this case, it will play through the specified passage twice and then continue).<br />

• If a hyphen is inserted between two numbers, such as “1-3”, <strong>Igor</strong> <strong>Engraver</strong> will play<br />

back the piece accordingly (three times in this case).<br />

To get playback to work as expected, a repeat sign must have the right ending –<br />

it can be either “open” or “closed”. If the repeat sign is to end before a repeat barline,<br />

it has to be closed (shown below left), but if there is no repeat barline it can<br />

be open (shown below right).<br />

These endings can be changed by choosing Open end or Close end, respectively,<br />

from the contextual menu. As can be seen, there are also commands to prolong

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