I am getting what seems like strange behavior when I try to shift notes in a grace note group to the other staff.
It works as expected if I shift the last one first and work backwards in order toward the first as at A. But if I try to shift the first one first, it produces the result at B. And if I try to shift a middle one, it stacks it under a neighboring one as at C. What am I doing wrong?
The above experiment arose out of the following situation. I am trying to place the first grace note of the three note group on the other staff, all with upstems, no centered beam.
In this case I was able to place the first note on the lower staff, perhaps because there are fewer notes in the group?)
but not able to use the “force up stems” on the second and third notes, because it superimposes the two notes:
Does optical note spacing help or hinder in this project?
@pianoleo Optical note spacing was turned on and I turned it off, but there was no change.
Hi @John_Ruggero I cannot reproduce your issues in both examples.
If you set the Library to the factory settings (on a copy of the file), does it behave as expected?
Can you share the project to see what can be different in the settings?
Can you check also this setting? (Default 70%) (if I put it veery low, I have an overlap as in your C example):
Here are the results I get using the factory Solo Piano template:
(I repeated bar 2 of your second example in order that the first couple of bars weren’t justified horizontally).
edit: oh, and with optical beam spacing turned on I get better results. Not great, but better:
Without an actual project, it’s difficult to know where your settings are going wrong. Do your Note Spacing values differ dramatically from the defaults, perhaps?
Thank you, @Christian_R and @pianoleo That indeed was the problem. I had scale space for grace notes set abnormally low for some reason. Probably an error when I was changing the note spacing for the section. I really appreciated your fast response!
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