It seems to be my experience that chordnames are bound to positions in bars, defined by events (notes or rests). Therefore, if I have a bar divided into 4 events, one can add a chordname (or more) to each event.
In my original post, I was dealing with 8 bars, each with a whole rest. I had attached a chordname to each of the first 4 bas. The following 4 bars also contained whole rests and required the same changes. I tried to copy the chordnames from the 1st 4 bars to the 2nd 4 bars.
No. It's not just chord symbols, though. As far as I know, you can't copy and paste *any* groups of items if you aren't also copying what they are attached to. While it might be possible to deal with that directly, I think the better model would be to select the entire region, notes and all, but have control over what actually gets copied - a dialog in which you select different object types. I think this beats trying to lasso-select just the desired objects because that isn't always feasible. An attempt to lasso-selected a group of chord symbols, for example, might also grab other above-staff text markings, or articulations, or any sufficiently high notes.
So I would propose closing this as a duplicate of, well, whatever issue might already exist requesting more flexible copy/paste (I couldn't actually find one).
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Chordnames are bound to chords and its not clear to me what should happen if you paste them.
It seems to be my experience that chordnames are bound to positions in bars, defined by events (notes or rests). Therefore, if I have a bar divided into 4 events, one can add a chordname (or more) to each event.
In my original post, I was dealing with 8 bars, each with a whole rest. I had attached a chordname to each of the first 4 bas. The following 4 bars also contained whole rests and required the same changes. I tried to copy the chordnames from the 1st 4 bars to the 2nd 4 bars.
Regards, and thanks for all.
Don
Has this been implemented in the nightly builds?
No. It's not just chord symbols, though. As far as I know, you can't copy and paste *any* groups of items if you aren't also copying what they are attached to. While it might be possible to deal with that directly, I think the better model would be to select the entire region, notes and all, but have control over what actually gets copied - a dialog in which you select different object types. I think this beats trying to lasso-select just the desired objects because that isn't always feasible. An attempt to lasso-selected a group of chord symbols, for example, might also grab other above-staff text markings, or articulations, or any sufficiently high notes.
So I would propose closing this as a duplicate of, well, whatever issue might already exist requesting more flexible copy/paste (I couldn't actually find one).
The ability to copy chord symbols (and certain other markings) in this manner was implemented a while back.
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.