Igor Engraver Manual

CHAPTER 15
Settings Windows and House Looks
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of barlines are to be shown. The settings of those options in the example above
will result in the following structure:
Since the violas, the violoncellos and the double basses belong to the strings
instrument group, and since that group is checked, those instruments are braced
together. Since Between each main group + where specified is chosen from the
Break single barlines menu, there is no barline between the clarinet and the
strings, but between the different instruments of the string section.
The choices available in the Group using menu are Curved brackets, Straight
brackets, Vertical bars and Braces.
Beneath the Group using menu are three options with checkboxes concerning the
grouping of instruments in certain situations. The Brace together identical
instruments option will create a brace around adjacent identical instruments,
such as Flute 1 and Flute 2. The Suppress empty score staves option lets you hide
staves that are not used in scores (apart from the first page of the score, where all
staves of the score are presented). The Identical instruments can share score staves
option, finally, combines the music played by identical, adjacent instruments
into a single staff, if their rhythmic patterns are similar to each other, on a system-to-system
basis.
The Musician numbering menu controls whether musicians are numbered using
Arabic numbers (e.g. Flute 1, Flute 2, Flute 3) or Roman numbers (Flute I, Flute
II, Flute III).
Suppress empty score staves suppresses empty staves automatically (this can also
be done from the contexual menu or in the Layouts Pane).