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Menu⟶Style⟶General…⟶Page⟶Lyrics lower margin is a rather cumbersome path.
I think one ought to be able to reach the editing of these margins by right clicking on the lyrics.
And you can already change the position of syllables individually or in groups of selected syllables using the Inspector. By "already", of course, I mean it is already implemented for 2.0. Although changing the position is more like changing the upper margin, not the lower. Still, changing lower margin is not something one would normally do more than once per score, if at all. And all other global style settings are done through that same style dialog, so it's really the correct place for it.
Regarding the original issue, the main purpose of a negative margin, I assume, is to allow the addition of lyrics to *not* increase staff or system distance. I'd personally rather just have a checkbox for that, rather than try to guesstime how big a negative margin will have the desired effect. But maybe you have a different use case in mind?
Very sorry about such a stupid question: Where can I find information about the «Inspector»? I have looked everywhere, except where I should, it seems… Nothing in the handbook (doing a text search in the preview app). I use OSX Mavericks, MS 1.3.
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Using a negative value in a style sheet work. So there's nothing fundamentally wrong with it, it is just the GUI that doesn't allow for this.
Comment:
Menu⟶Style⟶General…⟶Page⟶Lyrics lower margin is a rather cumbersome path.
I think one ought to be able to reach the editing of these margins by right clicking on the lyrics.
that might be for a single syllable, but not for all.
And you can already change the position of syllables individually or in groups of selected syllables using the Inspector. By "already", of course, I mean it is already implemented for 2.0. Although changing the position is more like changing the upper margin, not the lower. Still, changing lower margin is not something one would normally do more than once per score, if at all. And all other global style settings are done through that same style dialog, so it's really the correct place for it.
Regarding the original issue, the main purpose of a negative margin, I assume, is to allow the addition of lyrics to *not* increase staff or system distance. I'd personally rather just have a checkbox for that, rather than try to guesstime how big a negative margin will have the desired effect. But maybe you have a different use case in mind?
Tweaking that value can sometimes lead to a score fitting in one page rather than having just one more system in the next
Very sorry about such a stupid question: Where can I find information about the «Inspector»? I have looked everywhere, except where I should, it seems… Nothing in the handbook (doing a text search in the preview app). I use OSX Mavericks, MS 1.3.
Inspector is only available in the nightly builds, hence not yet documented in the handbook.
There you open it via F8
changed, built, tested...
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/647
Fixed in 57b6955c94
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.