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| The Rosegarden notation editor enables you to view and edit one or more staffs in traditional score notation. It can be found under **Segments → Edit With → Open in Notation Editor** (****N****). | The Rosegarden notation editor enables you to view and edit one or more staffs in traditional score notation. It can be found under **Segments → Edit With → Open in Notation Editor** (****N****). |
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| {{:doc:rg-notationview.png|Rosegarden's notation editor}} | {{:doc:rg-notationview.png?500 |Rosegarden's notation editor}} |
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| Rosegarden aims to present scores with the best possible layout compatible with its primary focus as a sequencer application. This means that although the editor supports chords, overlapping and nested beamed groups, triplets and arbitrary tuplets, grace notes, dynamics, accents, text and so on, it does not provide as much fine control over layout (especially in contrapuntal music) as a dedicated score editing program might. Rosegarden does not aim to produce typeset-quality score, although it exports LilyPond files, which form a good basis for typesetting. | Rosegarden aims to present scores with the best possible layout compatible with its primary focus as a sequencer application. This means that although the editor supports chords, overlapping and nested beamed groups, triplets and arbitrary tuplets, grace notes, dynamics, accents, text and so on, it does not provide as much fine control over layout (especially in contrapuntal music) as a dedicated score editing program might. Rosegarden does not aim to produce typeset-quality score, although it exports LilyPond files, which form a good basis for typesetting. |
| Alternatively, you can use the main window's **Open in Notation Editor** menu function, either on the **Segments** menu or on the right-button popup menu on a segment in the canvas. Select the segments you want to edit (by shift-clicking as above, or by using **Select All Segments**) and then select **Open in Notation Editor**. | Alternatively, you can use the main window's **Open in Notation Editor** menu function, either on the **Segments** menu or on the right-button popup menu on a segment in the canvas. Select the segments you want to edit (by shift-clicking as above, or by using **Select All Segments**) and then select **Open in Notation Editor**. |
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| If you have more than one staff (i.e. segment) visible in the notation editor, only one of them can be “current” at once. The current staff can be distinguished because it has the insert cursor on it (see [[/#nv-rulers|Rulers and Cursors]]), and this is the staff on which any editing operations that use the insert cursor will take place. The topmost staff is the current one by default, but you can switch to a different staff by ctrl-clicking on it, or by using **Tools → Local Cursor → Cursor Up Staff** (****Shift**+**Up****) and **Cursor Down Staff** (****Shift**+**Down****). | If you have more than one staff (i.e. segment) visible in the notation editor, only one of them can be “current” at once. The current staff can be distinguished because it has the insert cursor on it (see [[/#nv-rulers|Rulers and Cursors]]), and this is the staff on which any editing operations that use the insert cursor will take place. The topmost staff is the current one by default, but you can switch to a different staff by Alt-clicking on it, or by using **Move → Local Cursor → Cursor Up Staff** (****Alt**+**Up****) and **Cursor Down Staff** (****Alt**+**Down****). |
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