400: Creating auxiliary notes for trills without using grace notes

Auxiliary notes are often drawn just to the right of trilled notes, to show which note should be trilled to. You can normally use the pre-bend note (a stemless, bracketed grace note on the F9 Keypad layout) for these, but they are not always ideal because they attach to the previous note, i.e. they prefer to be positioned to the left of the main note, rather than on the right, and their position can be volatile (if e.g. you have to reset note spacing).

As an alternative, you can create a new notehead for this purpose, as follows:

• Choose House Style > Edit Noteheads, click New and answer Yes
• Switch off Playable and Stem
• Click Change Symbols, and choose the small noteheads from the Symbol dialog, clicking OK after each one
• Enter the trill note on the same spot as the main notehead, using an unused voice, e.g. voice 3.
• Select the note, choose the new notehead from the Notes panel of Properties (all the way down at the bottom of the list) and choose 'cue-size' (cue-cue size gives grace note size!) and 'brackets' on the F9 Keypad layout.
• Set the note to the right using the X offset on the General panel of Properties, about 3 spaces.
• Hide the remaining rests in voice 3 in the rest of the bar.

This answer provided by Wim Hoogewerf