Lengthening/Shortening gaps and dashes in gradual tempo changes

You can change the length of dashes and the gaps between dashes in individual gradual tempo changes, independently of your project-wide settings.

Note

This only applies to gradual tempo changes with dashed lines.

Procedure

  1. In Engrave mode, select the gradual tempo changes with dashed lines whose dash length you want to change.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate the following properties, individually or together, in the Tempo group:

    • Line dash length

    • Line dash gap

  3. Change the values in the value fields in any of the following ways:

    • Enter a value into the value field.

    • Click the arrows beside the value field.

Result

Increasing Line dash length makes dashes in gradual tempo changes longer, decreasing the value makes dashes shorter.

Increasing Line dash gap makes gaps between dashes in gradual tempo change lines longer, decreasing the value makes gaps shorter.

Tip

You can find options that change the default dash length for all dashed gradual tempo changes project-wide by clicking Advanced Options in the Gradual Changes section of the Tempo page in Engrave > Engraving Options.

For example, you can change the default dash length for dashed lines following text and dashed lines between hyphenated text separately.