Chord symbol / Text vertical alignment

Hi there,

Is there a setting to say something like “prefer text to be underneath chord symbols”?

Would be really helpful with this round for instance, but also in other usecases.

Thanks!

Not that I know of. You could create playing techniques. They seem to go below the chord symbols.

Jesper

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In my opinion, it would be nice to have more control over where text is placed (besides adjusting things manually.) I have the opposite issue at the moment, where I have text that I’d like to be located above tempo changes instead of below. (They are song titles in a medley.)

I think I’d like to have that as a setting within the paragraph styles.

You almost can if you turn off Avoid collisions, and increase the Distance from staff.

Jesper

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That is a good idea!

I initially didn’t do it that way because I was afraid of that messing up the spacing between the systems. I dread moving staves around manually since that breaks all automatic spacing on that page.

Moving the text around manually wasn’t that much work, I thought, until I realised that the adjustments I made only changed the top staff. I understand why even though it wasn’t what I expected.

So I tried the way you suggested, and it should be the easiest way to deal with this. (It also got rid of the head-ache when things collided with rehearsal marks and became a huge vertical stack. I guess I could always add another (transparent) text item if I need to get more space.

Thanks!

(And sorry Hanhom for hijacking your thread. I thought I was only adding a voice of support to your feature request, not figuring out a new way to solve my problem.)

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Just create a new paragraph style for those cases.

Jesper

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