I’m hoping to erase the background of a tuplet ratio where it spans a barline:
Can this be done?
My intitial workaround thought was to try inserting a graphic frame within engrave mode, and fill it with a single 1x1 white pixel .png so that it basically becomes a white box.
I was able to get that far, but then I realized there is apparently no way to adjust the z-order of elements such as moving the box behind the text (but in front of the staff lines), or move the text only to the foreground. I’d be curious to learn how to do this as well for staff text / labels / etc which sometimes get obscured when crossing a bar line.
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I searched the online manual for erasing background, and a number of hits came up, including text, so you might check there.
I have checked if a tuplet number’s font can be changed locally, which it can’t, but maybe editing the font itself in a way that the space within the 7 and some space above and below it is not transparent but white might be worth a shot - at least as long this does not interfere with septuplets elsewhere in the piece.
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Input a couple of non-breaking spaces as Shift-X text. Select the text and select Erase Background in Engrave. Move into position. The current drawing order will hide the barline but show the tuplet number.
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Ah, silly me, staff text is as simple as selecting a purely white background in the text popup window:
In all seriousness there have been moments where one letter crosses the barline and you can’t tell if it it’s an l or an i for example.
I can’t seem to find anything addressing tuplets though. This comes up for me sometimes, and it would be nice to have the option to add a background around any elements which span a barline. For now the only workaround I could think of is removing the text label and manually adding it in via Staff text with a white background:
I used MusGlyphs here but can’t figure out how to get the font to look like the tuplety version…
Ah looks like Fred beat me to it with a better point about using “erase background” which I hadn’t seen, clever hack!
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Brilliant, @FredGUnn — many thanks!
I was able to do it with (I think 5) regular spaces, then reduced the line spacing to 85% so it wouldn’t obscure too much of the barline:
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