turning two staves into one melodic line

[tognaco]

I have this kind of piano melodic line shown in the attached file

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and would like to rebeam it so that:

- The rests disappear
- All the 8th notes are joined together through the two staves

I've tried all the plugins and rebeam utilies but nothing seems to work. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

[miker]

Please try the image again. It didn't show up.

[tognaco]

I have edited the first post with the image already showing up. Thanks for your interest.

[Peter Thomsen]

This is called Cross Staff Notes.

See the attached Finale 2012 document.

[tognaco]

Than you very much. That is exactly what I was looking for . One more thing: is it possible to set the "joining line of the eight notes" (don't know how to say that in English) in the middle of the two staffs?

[miker]

Yes. I moved the beam with the Special Tool Beam Angle tool, and then reversed the stems (where needed) with the Reverse Stem tool.

[tognaco]

Thank you very much. It's perfect

[tognaco]

Well, I already know how to do the whole thing, expect for the whole rest that appears and that I can't delete. I imagine that it should donde using the cross staff plugin, but after trying every single combination of configurations it doesn't seem to work. This is the result:

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Thank you very much in advance.

[Peter Thomsen]

tognaco,

Take a look at my document “CrossStaffNotes2012.mus”.

In the lower staff the so called “Default Whole Rests” are hidden with a custom staff style that de-selects the option “Display Rests in Empty Measures”.

To see how the staff style is set up, switch to the Staff Tool, and go to
Staff menu > Define Staff Styles…

[tognaco]

OK, it worked perfectly . The most difficult part was to figure out which time signature I had to choose to make the "Rebeam to time signature" work.

[Peter Thomsen]

…The most difficult part was to figure out which time signature I had to choose to make the "Rebeam to time signature" work.

You can break/join beams individually with the / key (You are using the Speedy Entry Tool, right?).

In this particular case the / key might be faster than using “Rebeam to Time Signature…”.