Slur-relative fingering position in Write Mode?

[John_Ruggero]

I don’t understand why “Slur-relative position” is not present in the Fingering section in the Lower Zone in Write mode when “Staff-relative position” is present in both Write and Engrave Modes. This means that one has to constantly switch between modes to position fingering correctly in one pass, or do it in two passes, which is less efficient and risks more errors.

[dspreadbury]

I can’t completely remember the thinking behind this, but from a quick look at the way things are set up, it looks like we ended up considering the slur-relative position property as being more akin to a slight nudge to the fingering position, rather than fundamentally a different placement. We’ll certainly give this a second thought.

[John_Ruggero]

Thank you for considering this possibility, @dspreadbury. It would make a world of difference.

The problem is exaggerated by the fact that I can’t use the “Position Inside” Engraving Setting for fingering because of the issue that I mentioned a while ago in which the end fingerings are not placed outside the slur for slurs placed on the stem side of notes.

Slur-fingering issue

I have the Engraving Option set to position fingering inside of slurs. But when I do, I get this: [Slur and fingering] Yet I read in the documentation: “By default, fingerings are positioned inside the arcs of slurs, but outside the start/end of slurs.” The only way I can get this result for the example is to set the option to place all fingering outside of slurs or engage the “Avoid collisions” toggle in the Engrave Mode Slur Properties for each one. But I don’t want most fingering placed o…