Custom Sybol in Custom Pallet
Referring to the attached image. I have added what I'm calling a "Lower-Half Mordent". I've placed it into my custom "Lowrey" pallet. But it doesn't show in the pallet unless I scale it to 0.40 in the properties, and then it's only a dot. I've been looking for "image size requirements", found nothing. The image size is 25x31.
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Would this work:
![Lower-Half Mordent.png]( "Lower-Half Mordent.png")
Composed as a staff text containing 2 items from the Symbols palette:
<sym>ornamentMiddleVerticalStroke</sym><sym>ornamentZigZagLineWithRightEnd</sym>Whould have the advantage vs. an images that it'd scale along with the score and follow the Musical (Text) Font setting you're using
In reply to Would this work: [inline… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes, that'll work... where do I find them? I have the text box and I opened the Special Characters window and I'm on the Musical Characters Tab,
In reply to Yes, that'll work... where… by JoeHC
Just copy/paste this line
<sym>ornamentMiddleVerticalStroke</sym><sym>ornamentZigZagLineWithRightEnd</sym>I found them in the symbols palette of the master palette, using 'ornament' as the search term
I know I answered this elsewhere as well, but for the record: the reason you aren't seeing it in the palette is almost certainly that you had applied to an offset to the symbol before adding it to the palette, and the palette is trying to show the same offset, moving it out of the box. Solution is to add it to the palette before adding an offset.
In reply to I know I answered this… by Marc Sabatella
It seems counter-intuitive, By not applying the offset to get it into the pallet, requires always adding the offset when adding to a score. Sounds like a bug to me. Why would the "preview" display the offset?
In reply to It seems counter-intuitive,… by JoeHC
I think this is deliberate because some symbols would otherwise appear off-center based on how they are positioned normally, but indeed, it's not always ideal. On the other hand, offsets in the palette often don't get applied when actually adding the symbol to the score, which is also arguably a bug or arguably not. Sometimes it's what you want, other times not. Probably there should be options within each palette to control this.
In reply to I think this is deliberate… by Marc Sabatella
In my opinion, this is clearly a regression. There have already been some posts similar to this one, and I'm not sure if a bug report was filed in the Issue Tracker.
In all versions 2, and part of version 3 (?, I'm not sure when it started to go wrong), but adding a symbol to a palette with Ctlr + Shift + drag has never caused a problem like this (i.e. a symbol "disappears" somewhere in the palette, and the user - including myself the first time I've had to go through this! - has no way of understanding what can happen)
This action must succeed every time, the added symbol must be visible, otherwise it is felt as an issue, and it is an issue.
In reply to In my opinion, this is… by cadiz1
Well, see my comment above - there are times when the offset is useful to display things well. Consider, for example, if the graphic you are trying to place has white space around it - you'd need it offset so the visible portion is within the cell. But probably it would be better to get that effect from the palette properties, not by preserving the element properties. Feel free to file an issue so it can be considered!
In reply to Well, see my comment above -… by Marc Sabatella
Done: #319370: Offsets of score elements added to palette should be ignored when displaying the palette