When working in Engraving Mode, especially for layout tasks involving system and frame breaks, having to select individual notes to select a bar (for example in order to achieve "make into system) can quickly become tedious.
It would be extremely helpful to have the option to work directly with entire bars as layout units, for instance, being able to click and manipulate a measure as a block, rather than relying on note-by-note selection.
Is there already a way to do this that I’ve missed? If not, I’d be interested to know if this is something considered or technically feasible for future versions.
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Marquee selection?
Comma and period/full stop move the selected measure up/down a system, regardless of what’s selected in the bar.
For that matter, unless you’ve disabled the preference to snap breaks to barlines, Shift-S and Shift-F work the same way.
Marquee selection isn’t advised - for whatever reason, selecting a range of bars works less predictably than selecting start and end points only before using Make Into System/Frame.
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Thanks for the tip. Even though it is not exactly like having a system track in Engraving Mode which is more or less what I was hoping for the comma and period shortcuts are actually very functional for what I need right now.