Fast way to adjust distance between text and staff?

Dorico
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What I’m trying to do: notate the harmonic degrees used in a jazz voicing.

How I’m doing it: Create text above the staff, using a custom paragraph style for font size and weight.

The problem: The text is too far away from the staff.

The slow fix: Go to engrave mode, select each of the text items to move, alt-down arrow. I can’t use “select more” because I have text items that I don’t want to adjust.

Is there a faster fix? Like setting the default spacing for a paragraph style? Or selecting all note items with a specific paragraph style so I can reset the offset and adjust them again?


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If you type them in with carriage returns for each line, then the group will move all at once.

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I don’t understand what that means.

The example image has a single text item, with the different lines entered with carriage returns. By moving more text items, I mean for the other chords in the flow.

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Just realized that perhaps you are talking about moving all of these across the project at once?

EDIT - crossed each other :slight_smile:

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Yeah… sorry I wasn’t clear about that. I just took a small snippet to show the distance between the text and the staff. Sometimes I forget that people don’t have the same stuff going in their brains that I do – which is probably to everyone’s benefit! :slight_smile:

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You could enter one text box, reposition as desired, then copy it to other locations. Just open the copies and edit the text.

If you have a lot of them in place already, zoom out so you can view an entire page, select all of text you want to move, and nudge them down.

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There’s a setting in Engraving Options—Text for minimum distance from the staff.

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This sounds like a job for the FiguratoB font - designed for Figured Bass, before there was an FB feature. You set it as the Lyric Translation Font Style, and then type 9,7,13,11, in the lyric popover (after alt - up arrow to select Translation).

FiguratoB is designed for above the staff; Figurato is designed for below the staff.

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True, but the OP’s comment about “not wanting to adjust other text items” might conflict with that idea.

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Ugh, sorry. Apparently reading is hard on a… (checks)… Thursday.

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You are not alone. I posted the same answer as you, then re-read the question and deleted it :slight_smile: