Fingerings
Fingerings in chords
Inputting fingerings for chord with separation comma only seems useful when all the notes of a chord get a fingering. In the attached example this doesn’t seem to work at all. The only way I found to do this: I must select the notehead with the mouse, press Shift-F, 4, press Enter, then select the next note with the mouse, Shift-F, 3, Enter etc, resulting in 11 mouse-clicks and 33 keystrokes for this simple example!
Instead of selecting the entire chord when using the right-arrow, only the top note of the chord should be selected (as in standard navigation without fingering-popover activated). Up- and down-arrows should be used to select individual notes in the chords instead of switching between right and left hand fingering (tab-key or pageUp/pageDown might be used to toggle between right and left hand fingering instead). The example could then be fingered with 1 mouse-click and 27 keystrokes:
- Select the e in the first chord with the mouse
- Shift-F
- 4
- down-arrow
- 3
- down-arrow
- 2
- right-arrow (selects top note in next chord)
- down-arrow
- 2
- down-arrow
- 4
- down-arrow
- 3
- right-arrow
- down-arrow
- down-arrow
- 4
- down-arrow
- 3
- right-arrow
- down-arrow
- 2
- down-arrow
- 4
- down-arrow
- 3
- Enter
It is not the 6 keystrokes saved that make the difference, but the 10 mouse-clicks! For chords with all notes having a fingering this method would also be better than the actual procedure. One would just press an arrow-key instead of a comma. In fact to be able to press the comma I have to stretch my hand from the arrow-keys and look at the keyboard to make sure I hit the correct key. With the left hand on the arrow-keys and the right hand on the numeric keypad I would be able to enter fingerings without ever looking at the keyboard, which would be much faster.
Changing fingerings
When calling the fingering-popover on a note with fingering, the fingering is selected by default and ca be changed immediately by pressing the new number/letter. Unfortunately when moving to the next note the fingering is not selected and must be deleted before I can enter the new fingering. I change my fingerings all the time, so please change this!