When you set up a piece, Igor Engraver will automatically insert all standard brackets, braces and grouping symbols. If you want, Igor Engraver can sort your instruments so that they appear in the correct order. Barlines will be broken in the correct places, between instrument groups and between certain instruments, even inside other instruments, such as a multi-part choir.

All scores are not written in English. You decide what language to use: Igor Engraver names instruments and parts accordingly. You can choose between English, French, German, Italian, Swedish, and Finnish. Igor Engraver will set up group names, too, and can even write instrument names rotated. And they always follow their instrument and adapt automatically to the spacing of the staves.

Drag & Drop forms the basis of Igor Engraver's versatile user interface: just point, click and drag. No need to select special tools for simple tasks. Even advanced operations are handled this way: to clone an entire orchestral setup, including scores, parts, musicians and all instruments, you simply drag a single symbol to another window.

Transposition is automatic. Igor Engraver has expert knowledge of over 300 instruments and their particular transpositional characteristics. Want French Horns in F to transpose a fourth down in bass clef, but a fifth up in treble clef? No problem, it's built in. There is also special support for C scores, including what clef(s) to use for each instrument.

Furthermore, there are many parameters specific for scores or parts, such as the appearance of instrument names, page format, and so on.

Also, the clef changes take into account the transposition of layouts and instruments: a bass clarinet using German notation will have a different set of clefs in the part, in a transposing score and in a C score.

Important to remember is that with Igor Engraver, there is never any need to extract any part files. Scores and parts are kept in the same document, saving you many hours when you need to change something in your score.