Adjusting individual gliss text

Sometimes the gliss text on a gliss line would be clearer if I could adjust it along both dimensions a little nudge, but I’ve looked through the Properties panel and can’t find a control for it, and I can’t seem to do it by dragging in Engrave mode. Is there a way to do this?

TIA

You can if you use a Line with Hyphenated text instead.

Jesper

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Thanks, that may be a good option for some situations, but depending on the angle and where the text falls on the staff, I would still need to nudge it for optimum clarity, at least until they implement erase background for text like this.

Yes, you nudge it with the start/end gap property. You have to set it to start or end because center can’t be moved.

Jesper

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That moves the whole line for me. I just need to move the text and have the line remain.

Then you are doing something wrong. Note that the line is attached to noteheads,

Jesper

Ex:
glissline.dorico (537.6 KB)

Adjust the start/end gap

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I’m definitely doing something wrong. This is what I get in Properties when I click on the gliss line.

I’m not using a glissando line but a regular line.

Jesper

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Okay, I gotcha. Thanks I’ll try that.