Input methods for ornaments, arpeggio signs, and glissando lines
You can input ornaments, including arpeggio signs and glissando lines, with the keyboard by using the ornaments popover, and with the mouse by using the Ornaments panel.
You can input ornaments and arpeggio signs during step input and by adding them to existing notes, but you cannot input glissando lines during step input. You can only input glissando lines by adding them to existing notes.
Inputting ornaments with the popover
You can input ornaments with the keyboard by entering the ornament you want into the ornaments popover.
You can open the ornaments popover in Write mode in any of the following ways:
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Press Shift-O.
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Choose
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The icon on the left-hand side of the popover matches the corresponding button in the Notations toolbox on the right of the window.
Inputting ornaments with the panel
You can open the Ornaments panel by clicking Ornaments in the Notations toolbox on the right of the window in Write mode.
The Ornaments panel contains the following sections:
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Baroque and Classical
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Arpeggiation
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Glissandi
You cannot input arpeggio signs with the mouse during step input.
You can hide/show the panel whose icon is currently selected in the Notations toolbox in any of the following ways:
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Press Ctrl/Cmd-9.
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Click its disclosure arrow.
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Choose
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