Staff text not lining up after move to Windows 10

• Jun 30, 2018 - 19:37

I sometimes use Staff Text to insert lyrics on beginner piano scores that involve both hands playing the melody, since I can't get regular Lyrics text to work in such situations. Recently my hard drive crashed and I upgraded from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. I had to download MS again. I was using the latest version of MS2 on my previous hard drive. Now, when opening documents made on my previous hard drive, Staff Text is not positioned correctly (the words aren't lining up with the notes). I've attached the file that isn't working, an exported PDF that was created on my previous hard drive, showing the correct positioning of the lyrics, and a PNG screenshot of how the file looks on my new hard drive (out of position lyrics).

Attachment Size
Somehow (D6).mscz 24.07 KB
Somehow It Seldom Comes True.pdf 49.35 KB
Somehow.png 203.22 KB

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• Jun 30, 2018 - 20:08

Hmm...I just downloaded 2.2.1 10 days ago, which I thought was the latest version. Did 2.3 just come out in the last 10 days?

As far as using Ctrl+L, if you can tell me how to add the lyrics to mm. 5-8, where the melody notes alternate between treble and bass staff, then I will be happy to do so! (I just tried this now and Ctrl-L skips notes in the melody, because they alternate between staves.)

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• Jun 30, 2018 - 20:08

I think using staff text here really shot you in the foot. Would have been better to make lyrics work. If you do still want to use staff text, you'd need to do it note by note. Having one giant text with a whole line of lyrics and hoping things just line up perfectly is asking for trouble with a capital "T". The slightest change in font metrics or layout algorithms and nothing lines up any more.

In your example, I think you could have entered all notes into the top staff then used cross-staff notation to move some notes to the bottom if desired. You'd still need to adjust the position of the lyrics below those notes, but at least hyphenation would work. recommend switching to that approach for future scores like this. And as a bonus, you wouldn't have needed to hide as many rests - just the bottom staff ones, which could be done all in one go.

Meanwhile, for this score, you could either redo it that way or go through the lyrics line by line and tweak the spaces more to get things to line up, knowing full well the next slight change to your OS or MuseScore will likely necessitate another round.

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