Is the fixed spacer broken?
I use a separate stave for Capo chords so that they can be nicely aligned above the standard ones (mostly for real-estate reasons) with nice and easy transposition. I make that stave as small as possible (one line, no everything, and obviously hide the rests etc) so that it doesn't take up too much space, but it invariably still takes up a bit. To get around this, I've been using the fixed spacer to dictate exactly how far that stave sits above the rest of the system.
But now I can't. And I can't work out why. I managed to get a half-decent looking score by fiddling with a couple of settings and picking a very precise fixed spacer size, but if I'm outside of the range of 3.92-3.95 or exactly 4sp, it bumps back to around 9sp minimum. Unless I change them one at a time (just discovered now) in which case I can do what I want for most of the staves, but as soon as the last one of the page gets close to where I want it, the whole thing jumps back again.
I've set the minimum stave distance to 0, but that doesn't seem to make any difference at all...
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Score needed.
BTW: You can get capoed chords automagically (and in parentheses), Format > Style > Chord symbols > Capo position
In reply to Score needed. BTW: You can… by Jojo-Schmitz
I attached one... did I do it wrong?
Yeah, aware of that capo function, but it adds them beside the standard chords, which takes up LOADS of horizontal space which sucks when you have Ebmsus4/Bb or something like that. Plus I'm used to seeing the capo chords above anyway.
In reply to I attached one... did I do… by IsaacReefman
No score attached... just a PDF, an image of it
In reply to No score attached... by Jojo-Schmitz
Oops! What a doofus! Just fixed it, sorry!
In reply to Oops! What a doofus! Just… by IsaacReefman
I don't understand why you need that invisible extra staff, you can habe 2 chord symbols attached to the same chord of the same staff, and even have different style setting for them, you'd need to disable the playback for those capoed ones though (but I see you have disabled them all anyway), they'd still transpose that way.
In reply to Oops! What a doofus! Just… by IsaacReefman
Check the 1st chords of the 1st 2 systems
In reply to Check the 1st chords of the… by Jojo-Schmitz
I’ll check it out when I’m next back at the computer (no paid account so no “external files” into iOS app).
As per this thread: https://musescore.org/en/node/276524 doing it this way means I can:
a) change the capo level by changing the transposition of that instrument, without affecting the rest of the score.
b) “select all similar in part” to make changes easily to all capo chords and only capo ones.
c) add them quickly in the first place by just copying and pasting. Not sure of a way to do that otherwise.
For a few of the reasons.
In reply to Oops! What a doofus! Just… by IsaacReefman
And I can't see anthing wrong with the fixed spacers
In reply to And I can't see anthing… by Jojo-Schmitz
I’ll upload another version where I’m not sacrificing space to the white space Gods to make it work, demonstrating what I mean in 30 min or so when I get back to my computer.
In reply to And I can't see anthing… by Jojo-Schmitz
Note how in this version I set the vertical adjustment of the capo chords in the first page to zero so as not to just abandon the space 'belonging' to the top of that stave. I set the fixed spacers to minimum, but the space is actually greater than on the second page, where the settings were left as they were. The impact of leaving the space 'belonging' to the top stave empty can be seen at the top of the second page where the system is a long way down from the top of the page where the page number can be seen.
In reply to Note how in this version I… by IsaacReefman
Very strange indeed. Seems an effect of the 1-line only staff and/or the "extra space above staff" settings of this and the one below?
In reply to Verr strange indeed. Seems… by Jojo-Schmitz
I don't believe I've ever seen any difference from changing the 'extra space above staff' setting... I just changed all of them to 0, no change whatsoever... looks like negative numbers don't do anything, and nothing does anything to staves that are basically invisible like that.