Melody Lines between voices
I sing Barbershop. I am trying to arrange some songs and I am having a problem. This feature would also be helpful with other forms of choral music.
In Barbershop, the Lead normally has the melody, but sometimes, the Bass will take the melody. The Barbershop convention is to have a dashed line between the melody notes when the melody changes voices.
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Currently, the way to do this is with a linbe from the Lines palette, although you will have to position it manually. There is a possibility a future release may support lines that can be attached to notes and be positioned automatically.
In reply to Currently, the way to do this by Marc Sabatella
That works, though I have noticed that lines and slurs don't act nice when the span parts of two or more systems or cross pages. They tend to go straight from terminus to terminus and don't follow the staff as they should.
In reply to That works, though I have by lcwakeman
There is a know issue with glssandi in 1.3, but slurs should work fine. Can you post the score you are having problems with and steps to reproduce the problem? My guess is, whatever issues you are seeing in 1.3 have been fixed for 2.0 (althought eh gliss issue is only partially fixed).
In reply to There is a know issue with by Marc Sabatella
When will 2.0 be released?
In reply to When will 2.0 be released? by lcwakeman
"When its ready". You can try out the beta or nightly builds any time while waiting and report problems you see.
An alternative to a line would be a slur; right-click on the first note, right-click on the second and press 's'. Then adjust the handles of the slur to make it a straight line and then press F8 and choose dotted instead of (default) solid.
The advantage of a slur over a line is that a line just sits there and is easily out of place if the score changes but a slur is anchored to the start and finish notes and will stay reasonably straight and in position relative to the notes if minor changes to the score spacing occur (major changes would need you to adjust the straightness of it, though).