custom pallet placement location
Custom pallets work OK with drag and drop onto the score, but this makes it very slow to put notation exactly where it should be and makes it hard to ensure consistency across a score.
I have a custom pallet for handbell notation, with all the various types of articulation that handbells play. I would like to be able to select all the notes that I want to apply an articulation to and click on a table mallet pallet icon and have it place the notation in the proper position in relation to each note in the score. Instead, the articulations are all added, but then need to be manually adjusted. Right now the default location is generally covering up ledger lines.
The notation should end up in the same place and have the same notation rules that any other normal accent or note articulation should have, like staccato or marcato, etc. Those work fine when you double click on their pallet icons. Why wouldn't custom pallet icons work the same way?
Currently I either have to drag each notation mark individually (resulting in inconsistent notation unless I am extremely careful), or else I have to select all of them and apply positioning to get them all closer where they should be, but this also ends up being wrong since there are different values of Y position that need to be applied to different notes, especially if there are multiple voices or other nearby notations, (which there usually are in handbell music).
In my screenshot all of the yellow dotted notations could work exactly like normal accents, but they don't.
Is there a way to make them work the same way?
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Here is the result of what happens right now when you double click a pallet icon.
In reply to Here is the result of what… by danielgibby
From the MuseScore 4 Handbook:
... in general, to apply palette items to your score, you can either select the target elements in the score and then click the palette item, or drag the item from the palette to a target element.
[Source: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/using-palettes#add-palette-item]
Note: using a double-click was used in earlier MuseScore versions, but now it's a single click.
In reply to From the MuseScore 4… by DanielR
OK, single clicking is good to know. But then when I click the palette item it doesn't do what I would expect.
Why doesn't it work as expected? Is there a way to get it to put the notation in the proper placement so that, for example, it isn't covering ledger lines or in a seemingly random spot which will always need to be moved?