Is there a way to “slide” text along a line to avoid collision?
A space down in “the direction of 7/8 o’clock” along the line would be good here.
I have not tried it, and I am not in front of computer, but: what happens, if you add a custom text at the property panel “gliss. “ with hard spaces at the end?
Do you really need the “gliss.” text? Change the glissando type to wavy and the fact it’s a glissando is self-evident.
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Yes, you are probably correct. But perhaps it could be on a “FR-list” for a future version, to slide the text 0–100% along a line, like in TikZ.
Hi @Mats_Frendahl,
you probably already know this. Just in case: to obtain what you need with a gliss. there are two workarounds
- using a solid line with added text in the properties,
- using a custom solid line with annotation:
Dorico file example:
gliss text position workarounds.dorico (1.3 MB)
Edit:
if you need the gliss. playback you can set also a normal gliss, with no text and setting the start and end offset of its line to a high level (999 for example) to have it outside the page.
Edit 2: as requested with a private message, I attach a visual guide to obtain the third example (custom solid horizontal line with custom annotation). Choose from menu Library > Lines, and then select the Horizontal category. Follow the numbers 
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For different positions of the gliss. text, is possible to duplicate the line, rename it appropriately, and set the Start/end gap to a different value.
The line obtained should be placed with the Notehead as start and end Position (on the upper part of the Horizontal Lines Panel in Write mode.
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