MS 4.2 How to add note-anchored lines between notes on adjacent staves?
How does one do this? Using the Line pallette works within a stave, but when trying to connect notes in different staves in the same system, strange formatting happens, like undesired changes in spacing between staves.
MS 4.2, Mac OS 13.6.3
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select one note, ctrl+select another, Add > Line > Note-anchored line
That line is not part of the lines palette at all
In reply to select one note, ctrl+select… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks - does ctrl work on Macs as well, or is it CMD?
In reply to Thanks - does ctrl work on… by SAFVet
Also, I don't think this solution appears in the Handbook yet...???
In reply to Also, I don't think this… by SAFVet
Note anchored lines are the best kept secret or MuseScore 😉
In reply to Thanks - does ctrl work on… by SAFVet
Yes, I believe on Mac it is Cmd instead of Ctrl
Edit: the handbook doesn't mention Cmd here, see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/selecting-elements#select-list-manu…
If you are taking suggestions, it would be nice for choral part lines to be able to designate solid/dash/dotted.
In reply to If you are taking… by SAFVet
For note-anchored lines? Possible already, via the properties
In reply to For note-anchored lines?… by Jojo-Schmitz
I can't seem to find any place in the properties to set the line type. Attached are screenshots of what I see. Please advise...
In reply to I can't seem to find any… by SAFVet
"I can't seem to find any place in the properties to set the line type"
I'm afraid that here your customisation of the UI has shot you in the foot. ;-)
If you dock the Palettes panel immediately under the Properties panel, you simply can't see the other properties which you need, further down the Properties panel. This is what you should be seeing in the Properties for a Note-anchored Line, in the Style property at the foot of the Style tab:
![MS4_note_anchored_line.png]( "MS4_note_anchored_line.png")
In reply to I'm afraid that here your… by DanielR
Thanks much!
In reply to I can't seem to find any… by SAFVet
That is pretty clearly not a note anchored line but a text line
In reply to That is pretty clearly not a… by Jojo-Schmitz
"That is pretty clearly not a note anchored line but a text line"
That is what the properties panel says but it lies.
If I select a note-anchored line, I see exactly what is in DanielR's picture.
[Edit]. It is not exactly a lie as you can in fact add start, continue and end text to a note anchored line. But they don't necessarily line up with the start, continuation point or end of the line.
In reply to "That is pretty clearly not… by SteveBlower
In MS3 as well as in MS4, a Note-anchored Line is reported as "Text line" in the Status Bar. So I don't think that this is a regression in MS4.
In reply to In MS3 as well as in MS4, a… by DanielR
Ok, I stand corrected then 😉