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However, you can also display staffs in two different page-based layouts: continuous page and multiple page layouts. Some of the functions of the editor (such as the Rulers) are only available in linear layout View → Layout Mode → Linear Layout The usual way the notation editor displays staffs is known as linear layout: one staff on top of another, with each staff as a single, horizontally scrollable long line. 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 ). The current staff can be distinguished because it has the insert cursor on it (see Rulers and Cursors), and this is the staff on which any editing operations that use the insert cursor will take place. segment) visible in the notation editor, only one of them can be “current” at once. 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. The Open in Notation Editor menu functionsĪlternatively, 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. The Return key is a shortcut for Open in Default Editor, which does much the same thing as double-clicking: opens all of the currently selected segments together in a notation editor, or in whichever other editor you have configured as your default. The Open in Default Editor menu function (the Return key) All of the selected segments will then be opened together in a single notation window. You can also open a multi-staff editor this way: holding down the Shift key, select (with a single mouse click) each of the segments on the main view that you want to open, but double-click on the last one. So double-clicking a single segment will open it as a single staff in a notation editor window.

This opens the segment in whatever you have configured as the default editor (notation, matrix, or event list), and by default this is the notation editor. The most obvious way is just to double-click on a segment in the main canvas.

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They all require that you have some existing segments in the main window first, so if you're starting a new composition, you should create your segments before you start thinking about how to edit them. There are three ways to open a notation editor from the Rosegarden main window.

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