My chord symbols on a few certain measures are automatically shifted way too high. When I alter them manually and move them down they look fine, but when I go to Print or to any other tab besides Engrave, they automatically shift back up. Please help – what’s going on?
It would really be helpful if you could share the file (or a stripped-down version of it that still exhibits the problem).
That’s very weird. When you then switch back to Write or Engrave mode, do the chord symbols then appear at the same too-high position in which they appear in Print mode, or do they appear closer to the staff as expected?
There can be some instability with collision avoidance for chord symbols in Dorico 6.0.10, which we are working on at the moment, but it typically affects only chord symbols with extender lines, which isn’t the case here.
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May Day Rag.dorico (3.7 MB)
Yes, once they move up, they stay in that position on the whole file.
It’s related to your Chord Symbol Line assignments. I think there’s obviously a bug here, but if you change all of your Chord Symbols to Line 1 then the issue seems to go away. I just reset them to line 1, but might have accidentally removed any section that actually had multiple lines. Was there a particular area where you needed multiple lines of chords?
May Day Rag - TB.dorico (3.5 MB)
No, I don’t think so. I don’t remember switching them off of Line 1, assuming that’s where they are defaulted to go. In fact, I don’t even know how to do that. But thank you for your insight!
It doesn’t look like it fixed the issue entirely, though. I changed them to Line 1. Then other symbols had an issue, and still when I move them manually, they revert back to an awkward position when I switch from Engrave to Print.
If you hit the up arrow while in the popover, it will let you input another line of chords, similar to how Lyric lines work. Here’s a gif:
Did you look at the file I posted with my modifications? This feature is definitely buggy as I had to manually change a lot of the line assignments individually. I couldn’t do it globally, but I think they are all working in the file I posted.
Ah yes, your file looks good. I see. You’re right, changing them globally switched some to Line 5, and the rest to Line 1 — and then vice versa. Thanks for the heads up with this. This helped!
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