• How notes are grouped under beams.
• Any manual manipulation of beams.
• The Flip Stem function.
• How the Note Info is set for each note.
• How the Polyphonic voicing dialog is set up (if you use Polyphonic Voices).
Also, there is a priority system with these steps, as they are listed above. In other words, if you have adjusted the beam slant “by hand” (see below), it doesn’t matter if you previously flipped the stems, or how the note was set up. If you have flipped the stems it doesn't matter how the notes or voices were set up, etc.
P If you have edited the stem length of a note and then flip it, the stem will be reset to default length.P If you have activated the “Fixed Stems” option in the Staff Options dialog (see page 126), a lot of the automatic stem length settings are ignored. However, you can still edit the stem length and direction of individual notes.