Chordname Problems
Love MuseScore but having problems with the chordnames.
1-I need one page scores & found the default chordname text too large.
2-I am unable to resize chordname text using edit text style option & text size option found underneath the score. Only option that works is to input ALL chordnames first. Then right click a chordname- select text properties-change font size-then click apply to all elements of the same type.
3-After resizing text styles, chordnames float high above the score resulting in wasted space. Only solution was to manually relocate each chordname by click/drag. Is there a faster more efficient way to correct problem?
Using Vista
Much thanks,
Kaye
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What I would just do is to decrease the page fill threshold. Go to Style -> Edit global style -> Page and reduce the page fill threshold to 60%. The music will look a lot nicer.
If you want to reduce the size of the chordnames, you can use the text style. Save and reload the file to apply the change.
You can use the style to put the chord closer to the staff as well. Change the Y for chordnames to -2 or -1. Save and reload to apply.
Can you describe how you created this score (from a template? which one?) and how you came to set the chordname styles? You've definitely got chordnames that are *way* bigger than they are supposed to be. You have your chordname general style set to jazzchords, which normally expects a 12pt font setting in the corresponding text style, but you have that text style set to 15pt, which is the appropriate font size for the new chordname styles (eg, cchords_muse). You also have a very unusual / non-standard choice of font (Segoe Print is how it renders on my Windows machine) in the chordname text style. I'm guessing maybe you started from the old Lead Sheet template, which used small scaling and high but small chords, then tried to change the chordname styles manually, and also cranked up the Scaling/Space setting in Layout->Page settings, further exacerbating the problems.
I'm guessing all this is the result of your having tried a lot of things trying to figure this out, but this is definitely not the state you want to be in.
If I were you, I'd start over by creating a new score using the Jazz Lead Sheet and then simply copying/pasting your current score into it. You'll at least have everything the correct size. I think you'll probably find the chordnames *too* close to the staves now that you've dragged them down based on their previous way-too-high condition, and you will have to fix that manually as far as I know.
But I'm confused when you say that changing the size of the chordname text style didn't work. This won't affect already-entered chords, but it definitely should affect all chords entered after. So setting a size first should definitely work.
BTW, have you read my tutorial on creating lead sheets? You might want to start there in the future:
http://musescore.org/en/node/11723
In reply to Can you describe how you by Marc Sabatella
Hi Marc
It is not possible to change size and fonts of chordnames in a score, you have reloaded. When you mark the chord and right click and go to the window, to make changes in size or fonts the chord dissapear. I have downloaded and tested it on your Monk's Got Rhythm score.
It is only possible to make changes by right-clicking, when you just have typed the chords. It is not possible, when you have saved and reloaded the score.
In reply to Chordnames by trommeknud
You *can* change size and fonts of chordnames, but it isn't obvious. Edit the text style, then reload the file - the changes you made to the style will be applied on the reload. This seems to work in 1.1, anyhow..
In reply to You *can* change size and by Marc Sabatella
I change the first chordname in Monk's Got Rhythm from size 17 to size 12, and the name disappear.
I save the score and reload the score, and the chordname appear again in size 17. It is not possible to change the size.
It is not working in 1.1 and windows 7 and xp.
In reply to Still no changes of size of chordnames by trommeknud
Sorry, I should have been more clear. When I said to change the *text style*, I wasn't referring to the text properties of any given chord. I meant the style itself - Style->Edit Text Style->Chordname. Make your change there. It will appear to have no effect, but it most definitely will upon reload. Text styles in 1.1 do not in general affect elements that have already been created, but for a few elements types that aren't pure pure text but that are generated by MuseScore in some way, they do - possibly after a reload. I believe measure numbers works that way as well.
It is of course a bug that trying to edit the text properties of a chord makes them disappear, and that the changes have no effect on reload. Lots of things are a bit off with respect to text styles and properties in 1.1, but luckily, the whole system has been redesigned and seems to work a lot better from what I've seen in the nightly builds for 2.0.