Group Style Definition dialog box

How to get there

From the Plug-ins menu, choose Scoring and Arranging, then Update Groups and Brackets. Click Create, Duplicate, or Edit.

What it does

This dialog box allows you to define a new group definition, and provides functionality similar to the Group Attributes dialog box. This dialog box is part of the Update Groups and Brackets plug-in, and as such, can only be used to create or edit group style definitions for optimized systems.

• Group Name; Font · Abbr. Group Name; Font. Enter the full and/or abbreviated names for the group here. Click the Font button to display Font dialog box where you can change the font, size or style.
• Staff · Through. These Staff drop-down lists show the names or numbers of the starting and ending staves for the currently displayed group. Choose a staff name to specify the starting and ending staves in a group. A group always includes the staves in between the specified staves.
• Show Group Name. This checkbox controls whether group names that you enter will appear in the document. When selected, the full and abbreviated group names appear in your document. If you prefer to hide the names for this group, deselect this checkbox.

Tip: Use Show Default Group Names in the Staff menu to control whether default, non-printing group names appear in the document.

• Draw Barlines: Only on Staves · Through Staves · Only Between Staves (Mensurstriche). Select Only on Staves if you want the barlines drawn only within each staff, without connecting each staff with the barline; select Through Staves to draw one continuous barline passing through all the staves in the group. Select Only Between Staves (Mensurstriche) to draw barlines between the staves, but not through the staff lines of each staff in the group.
• Use Alternate Group Barline: Select. Select this option if you want Finale to use an alternate barline style that you select from the Barline palette, instead of the barline style selected in the Measure Attributes dialog box. If this option is not selected, Finale uses the barline style specified in the Measure Attributes dialog box. Click Select to open the Shape Selection dialog box where you can choose from a library of shapes or create your own. See Shape Selection dialog box.

Note: You can override the barline selected for a group on a measure-by-measure basis by choosing Override Group Barlines in the Measure Attributes dialog box. When you choose this option, the barline set in the Measure Attributes dialog box will always appear, regardless of any alternate barline style selected in the Group Attributes dialog box. This might be used for the final bar in a piece. For more information, see Barlines.

• Bracket Options. Click to select the bracket style you want to use for the current group, or click None if you don’t want a bracket to enclose the group. If you want more than one bracket to appear for a group, create additional group styles for the staves, then choose a different bracket style for each group. For details, seeBrackets: Staves—To create additional (nested) brackets.
• Show Bracket if Group Contains Only One Staff. Select this option if you want a bracket to appear on a group containing only one staff, if all staves but one are “optimized out” (i.e., removed because the staves are resting instruments), or if you selected one staff from the group, then selected Special Part Extraction from the Document menu.
• OK · Cancel. Click Cancel to dismiss the dialog box without changing group settings. Click OK (or press enter) to confirm your settings and return to the Update Groups and Brackets plug-in.

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