Is there a way to add vertical space above the first staff of a coda in player parts while keeping the staff spacing the same in the rest of the part? None of the choices in Vertical Spacing seem to accomplish that.
Is it what you are looking for?
If so, while waiting for a better solution, I tried something that works: I entered a text item in the second bar of the coda, attached to the system (Shift+Alt/Opt+X) so that it applies to all parts. In the text editor, I pressed Enter once or twice after the letters to increase the vertical space.
Then, in the full score, with Set Local Properties set to Globally, I selected this text and made it transparent (Color>Alpha CHannel=0). After that, still in the score, I switched Set Local Properties to Locally and checked Hide.
This way, the text is hidden everywhere, but the space around it doesn’t affect the full score, while it does affect all the parts. It works — but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone comes up with a smarter solution!
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Yes, that’s exactly what I’m looking for. Thank you. Nice creative solution. I will try that. I recall doing a similar mixture of unrelated moves in Finale for a different situation for which Finale did not provide a function.
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@charles_piano I had the same thought yesterday, but I was adding text in the first measure of the coda and couldn’t get around the Coda mark being displaced by my system text. Putting the text in the second measure is a great way to avoid that.
One problem, though, is that if any of the instruments have a multibar rest at the start of the coda, the system text will break that rest. In such a case, it may be better to put the text in the first bar and incur the cost of adjusting the position of Coda in all parts. It’s still probably less work than manually adjusting system spacing, and it has the advantage of continuing to work even if systems reflow.
(Side note: I have posted elsewhere about what I think are the drawbacks of a local property becoming global when it is set globally, rather than remaining local with the same value globally. In this case, the offset of the Coda text is a local property; it would be helpful to be able to set it globally so that it looks correct in all parts, and then override locally in the score.)
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That is why I chosed the second, as you guessed!
That hadn’t crossed my mind! Good point.
I just tried to play around with this value:
In my file, with -12.5 and without any draging (and with the text in the first bar), I get:
It’s not perfect, and it might cause issues elsewhere, I guess, but it’s not too bad, is it?
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