Stem direction can be set separately for each voice.This is the stem setting with the lowest priority. It is only valid if no other settings were made specifically.
In the Note Info dialog you find stem direction settings for each voice (see page 151): Select This: When:
Up When you want the stems in the voice to point upwards.
Down When you want the stems in the voice to point downwards.
Flipping the Stem of a single Note
1. Select the Note.
There are three ways of doing this:
• Click the Flip icon on the Score Toolbar.
Flip Stem• Select Flip Stems from the Do pop-up menu.
Flipping the Stem of a number of selected Notes
1. Select the Notes.
2. Invoke Flip Stems as described above.
All the stems in the selection are now flipped. Those that pointed up now point down and vice versa.
Flipping the Stems of Notes grouped under a Beam
1. Select any note in the Group.
The entire group is now flipped.
Before and after the flip. No matter which note you select, the entire group is flipped.
If you need stems attached to the same beam to go in different directions, this is achieved by dragging the beam’s start and end points, as described on page 168. This feature is available in Page Mode only.
Independent stem direction under a beam.
The Note Info dialog with the Stem pop-up.
• Setting this to Up or Down is the same as using Flip Stems, see above.
• Setting it to Auto makes the program take decisions about stem direction, as described