Thursday, 15 May 2008

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Insert: Bar Line (Decorated), under the Bar Line tab, check Force System Break.

When selected for a bar line that appears in the top staff of a system, this option will force a new system to be started, starting with the next measure. This option only has an effect when used with bar lines in the top most staff of the system. It is ignored when it appears on bar lines in lower staves.

You can also use this option to pad the final system in a printed score. Simply add a final bar line in the top staff as the very last item in the staff. Add the Force System Break to this bar line, and this will force the final system to be padded just like the other systems in the printed copy. This is demonstrated in the following example file:

Example of padding the final printed system