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Hello
Is there a way to apply a double slash symbol to the staff indicating repeated groups of semiquavers, like the one in the pic?
I can't locate it under Staff Styles or anywhere else.
Thanks in advance

For me, I would use the normal slash Staff Style, and then add the extra slash as an expression.

Zuill

- but you can also hide the real entries (with the staff style Blank Notation), and add the symbols as expressions.

In the Maestro font, the {single slash} which is used in the staff style Slash Notation, is located in the character slot #213.

The {double slash with a dot on both sides} is in slot #199.
Usually this symbol is used in the staff style Two-Bar Repeat.

In the Maestro font there is not a glyph for {double slash without dots}, but you can create it, by positioning two characters, each with a single slash, next to each other.

I do not know whether you need it, but there is also a {single slash with a dot on both sides} - in slot #212.
Usually this symbol is used in the staff style One-Bar Repeat.

Demo attached.

A single slash will be interpreted the same way, so you don't strictly need a double slash. The plain double slash looks pretty good; the double slash with dots seems to me non-standard, though I guess it's clear what's intended. But I don't think it's any clearer than a single or double slash.

using expressions seems the way to go, anyway I'm not sure I have understand where to enter the slot number.
Meanwhile I copied the slash from Peter document.

detlef wrote:using expressions seems the way to go, anyway I'm not sure I have understand where to enter the slot number …

In this example let us say that you want to create an expression with the {single slash} located in slot #213:

In the Expression Designer, make sure that the expression is set to, using the category’s fonts.
Then set the font to Maestro 24, e. g. by setting the font to the category’s Music Font (rather than to the category’s Text Font).

Text menu > Inserts > Symbol…
You get to the dialog box Symbol Selection, showing all the characters in the Maestro font.
Scroll down to character #213, and double-click it.

ok thanks for the insight