Writing harmony analysis
Hi! Been using softwares Finale for 25 yrs and Sibelius for 15 yrs. Now starting out with Musescore. While writing harmony analysis with roman numerals I often find myself wanting to adjust the vertical baseline. In Finale and Sibelius you adjust the vertical posiiton of a text item and from there you go on writing on that new position.
However in MuseScore the vertical position of the next "word" reverts to the "original" y-position. That is highly inconvenient or am I missing something?
Hoping that you experienced users want to help me out!
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Wekcome. Style/Text-> set the offset.
The subsequent text you type should make the necessary settings
In reply to Wekcome. Style/Text-> set the by Shoichi
I had the same "issue" as the OP, but since I am just starting using music notation software and MuseScore is the full extent of my experience, it has not been such a big problem for me. I have used this workaround: (when typing in text style "figured bass") finish the analysis for the piece on the default level, then select one of the text elements and right-click -> Select -> All similar elements, then adjust vertical offset in the Inspector. When I saw your answer, I thought that would be a much better way to go about doing it, so I tried it. The only problem is that the Style -> Text menu contains every single text type except Figured Bass! Am I missing something? Please help.
In reply to I had the same "issue" as… by Louis Cloete
It seems that figured base test style is everywhere except the style->Text menu. You can't access it through the speed menu (right click) either. You can change a text to the style figured bass in the inspector though. Sounds like an oversight.
In reply to I had the same "issue" as… by Louis Cloete
Figured bass is handled pretty specially, as are chord symbols for that matter, so the usual text style settings don't necessary apply. For chord symbols we actually pretend to but then override it in Style / General, but I guess for figured bass we don't even pretend. Anyhow, the actual place to control figured bass settings in Style / General / Figured Bass.
In reply to Figured bass is handled… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you for your reply. It works very well :-) Just a question: why is 9.99 sp the maximum vertical offset from the top of the staff? I wanted to move the figured bass 4 sp down from the default of 6. 9.99 works fine, but I would like to have more headroom if I need it for some or other reason.
In reply to Thank you for your reply. It… by Louis Cloete
Not sure what you mean. Where are you finding yourself limited to 9.99sp?
In reply to Not sure what you mean. … by Marc Sabatella
It was probably user error, because when I tried again after your reply, I could enter a number all the way up to 25 sp. My apologies.
In reply to Wekcome. Style/Text-> set the by Shoichi
Thankyou! That did solve the problem! /
In reply to Thankyou! That did solve the… by Christer Holmberg
Shoichi's advice solved my problem!