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a. Position your cursor over an ENF system that contains the part you wish to extract. Hit Ctrl+M (Cmnd+M for Mac). System Manager opens.

c. Check the box "Visibility" in lower left-hand corner of the window. This informs the System Manager of the kind of action we are taking.
d. Now we will choose which parts to extract. To the left of the parts you do not wish to extract, remove the visibility checkmarks. This leaves only the part(s) you wish to extract with checkmarks.
e. Press Apply to New to create a new score, leaving the current file unaffected. Or press OK to remove parts from the open document.

FIGURE 8 - 3: is the result of the System Manager settings made in FIGURE 8 - 2:

Let's go back to the original ENF document in FIGURE 8 - 1: Let's say we want to extract a contrapuntal voice from the right hand part.

b. Click the dot next to the Part Name to highlight the target part. Remove checkmarks of all parts and voices except for the part and voice you wish to target.

c. Make sure "Visibility" in lower left-hand corner is checked.
d. Press Apply to New to create a new score, leaving the current file unaffected. Or press OK to isolate the part in the open document.

When you position your cursor over a given system and open the System Manager, what you see displayed is a representation of the active or highlighted system. Some parts may have their visibility checked on and some may not depending on whether or not a particular part appears in the active system. When the System Manager is opened, the default "controlling system" is always the active system.

During Recognition, the system containing the greatest number of staves will register that total number in a special controlling system within the System Manager. This register is called the Super System and it represents the true number of parts in the score. Normally, the Super System and the largest System Manager will have the same number of parts. Occasionally, however, total actual instrumental parts may exceed the number of staves per system in the largest system of the score (as represented in the list of Part Names inside the System Manager). For example, the largest system may not contain an instrumental part that appears elsewhere. See "Re-link Parts" for more information about re-linking parts and dealing with scores having collapsed or expanded systems.

The Super System always represents the total number of potential instruments. Adding or removing parts is normally done from the Super System and not from active system displayed in the System Manager.

c. Select the part you wish to add a part next to by clicking on the black dot to the left of the part. Apply to: All should be selected.
d. Choose Insert Above or Insert Below. Then press Apply.
e. Switch Controlling System back to Active. Notice the newly added part is added, but is NOT checked for visibility.

NOTE: Parts are not visible in ENF until Visibility is applied to one or more systems. See "Controlling Part Visibility and Part Linking" for details on making part visible.

You can change the distances between the lines in a staff as well as distances between staves and systems from inside the System Manager. Changes can be applied to the active system or to all subsequent systems.

b. Select Ctrl + M (Cmnd + M Mac) to open the System Manager.
c. Changing Line Spacing increases or decreases the space between lines in staves and resizes noteheads. Changing Staff Spacing increases or decreases the distance between staves.

NOTE: Staff Spacing of the last part will determine the space between systems. It is usually about double the other staff spacings.

d. Check the Spacing box in the "Apply" area.
e. In the "Apply To" pull-down menu, select the active system, all subsequent systems (System+) or All. Press Apply then OK to close.

Occasionally, a staff inside a system may not be localized during recognition due to flaws in the image or otherwise. If so, the system in ENF to which it belongs will not display that part. Missing staves can be inserted quite easily as follows:

a. First, you want to re-link parts in the shorted system. Position the cursor inside the system and hit Ctrl + L to open Re-link Parts.

b. Put a check next to the appropriate visible parts. Leave the missing part unchecked. Hit OK.
c. Open System Manager (Ctrl + M). You should see a part with a missing check mark along the left side. This means it is invisible.
d. Check the part, and check the Visibility box in the Apply section.
e. Change the Apply To: pull down menu from Score to System. Hit Apply to preview or OK to apply and close System Manager.
f. Hit the "U" key and select Unify Key and Time based on First System. Hit OK. Now you need only fill in the missing notes. Remember to use Copy and Paste functions whenever possible.

Any or all the actions listed in this chapter will alter the layout of the ENF file. Be mindful that synchronization with the original scanned pages will probably be lost after one or more of these actions are applied. Therefore, it is recommended you thoroughly edit the ENF file using the associated image views before altering score structure. See "View >Associate Image Files" for information on reassociating ENF and scanned image views.

b. To set page size to correspond to a particular page format, choose the desired format from the "Type of Page" pull-down menu.
c. Click and drag with your mouse or use the numeric scrollers to change existing margins as required.
d. To reorient the page, select Landscape or Portrait in "Orientation".
e. To change the indent of the first system on the first page, select 0", 1", 2" or 3" from the First System Indent pull-down menu.
f. In the Scope pull-down menu, select the range of pages you wish to apply the change to:
The entire Score, Score-Part or only to the current Page.
g. Push OK to apply the changes.

For parts to be joined into a system (and play simultaneously), an adjoining bracket along the left-hand margin must be visible. Usually, brackets are cut off by mistake during scanning If this occurs and one or more parts become separated (becoming single-line systems themselves), it is possible to rejoin them; forming a new, larger system.

FIGURE 8 - 2: Merging Systems

b. The active system highlights in grey. Using the checkboxes, reassign each highlighted staff to its correct part name and position in what will become the final, reformed system. Apply to = System.
c. Press the Next System button and reassign each highlighted staff line to its correct part name as you did above. Return to the first staff of the final, reformed system by selecting Previous System.
d. Now, check the Merge checkbox. When the Next System button is pushed, the two systems will join into a single system. Continue using Next System again until all separated parts are correctly joined. Review Part Name checkboxes for correctness.

In scores with collapsed or expanded systems (also known as optimized systems), Re-link Parts allows you to reassign parts to stafflines of any selected system. Within such scores, parts may disappear, become doubled or reappear in a later system. By re-linking parts of optimized scores, parts will play back correctly as they disappear and reappear throughout the score. In addition to proper playback, the MIDI file created for such files will have tracks and channels properly threaded.

All parts listed in System Manager's Super System appear in the main list of the Re-link Parts window (see "System Manager" for more information). Checked boxes represent which parts were assigned to each staff of the active system.

b. Check the part names that are actually associated with the active system. Be sure to remove checks from parts that are not associated with the active system. Larger systems may require scrolling down the list. The program will not allow you to select more or less parts than actually appear in the active system.
c. To view adjacent systems, press Next or Prev System.
d. In the Apply To box, press Apply to apply to active system. System+ will apply to the active system plus all subsequent systems.

In this example, the first page consists of one system having 15 parts (15 staves per system). With the cursor positioned over the system and Re-link Parts opened, 15 parts will be checked.

The second page contains 3 systems each with 6 staves. Many parts that appeared on the first page have dropped out. With the cursor positioned over one of the systems, 15 Part Names will be listed but only 6 will be checked in the Re-link Parts window. In this case, it was necessary to remove all check marks and then check the top six parts to reestablish proper part linking. See Figure 7-2. Notice that the re-linked parts were applied to all subsequent systems (System+) from the topmost active system.

FIGURE 8 - 4: Re-linking an orchestral score

Score Structure (Edit > Score Structure) is a powerful tool that allows you to create entirely new scores by removing, creating and re-linking parts. By simply dragging links around, you have the ability to remove parts, extract parts and join individual part scores into multi-part "conductor" scores. See "Scanning Part Scores (Score-Parts)" for more info.

An ENF file was recognized from 3 part scores (each having one Part per Score-Part). A "Score-Part" consists of all the pages of a single instrument in a part score. Some Score-Parts may contain more than one Part (a piano Score-Part has 2 Parts and an organ Score-Part has 3 Parts). Let's view the structure of a part score and then combine all parts into one document.

b. Click on any Score-Part to highlight it and push the Insert button at the bottom of the window. You will see a blank Score-Part appear.

NOTE: Inserting a new ENF Document will work just as well. In either case, applying the change (Apply to New) will create a brand new ENF document, leaving the original file untouched.

To the left, a new, empty Score-Part was Inserted (you could also re-link parts to an existing Score-Part). Here, the new Score-Part is given a name (Win: Right-click / Mac: Option + click to open its Properties).

To relink any structural object, click on the object and drag it to another object in an adjacent column.

Here, the three existing parts are relinked to the newly created Score-Part (named Conductor's).

Highlight the unlinked Score-Parts and push Remove. Push Apply to New. The modified structure is transformed to a new ENF document.

FIGURE 8 - 7: Creating a Conductor's Score

7.4.3 Joining open ENF files

You may discover that you have edited two ENF files that really belong together as a single section, movement or song. ENF files can be joined (appended) to a single ENF file.

7.4.4 Creating Part Scores from Ensemble Scores

Extracting instrumental parts out of a conductor's score in Score Structure is similar to creating a conductor's score from score-parts, just reversed. NOTE: All SmartScore files (ENF documents) must contain at least one Score-Part linked to at least one Part.

Here is a typical "ensemble" score (ENF Document) which will contain one Score Part with several Parts linked to it.

Three new Score-Parts Insert. To name, Right-click (option + click for Mac) in Properties. Drag each Part (child) to new Score Parts (parent) to reconfigure each open ENF document. Push Apply to New to spawn off a new document with included data. This will create a file with 4 Score-Parts arranged in order. Playback remains synchronized and the original ENF document remains unchanged.

FIGURE 8 - 8: Creating Score Parts from Ensemble scores

The following table describes how various structures appear in ENF and MIDI views. Understand these relationships and you will understand how the logical structures are linked in SmartScore.

Table 4: Relationship between structures in ENF and MIDI views
Score (Document)	Score Part	Part	Voice
ENF View
Defined by Super System within System Manager	Defined by System Manager	Defined by Part Number in System Manager.	Defined by Voice Number in System Manager
Equivalents in MIDI View
MIDI File	MIDI Track	MIDI Track	MIDI Channel

To view voices in Score Structure, click on "Show Voices" button. If Color Mode = Voice, you will notice voice names also show their voice color. Voices have special meaning in Smart.score. They are tightly linked to each other logically and physically (Vertical Event joining for example). Since voices are "locked" to one another in ways that Parts and Score-Parts are not, it is not possible to re-link voices to other Parts or Score-Parts. You can, however, extract voices separately or in select groups from within the System Manager. See "Extracting voices using Visibility" for more.