stray dynamic makings
I am arranging a symphony for string sextet. Some stray (and incorrect) hairpins as well as a stray incorrect diminuendo mark have appeared in the viola 1 part. I am not able to delete them. They do not appear in the score or in the PDF version of the part. I find that puzzling.
I tried deleting and re-entering the content of one of the measures in question. That results in the stray markings going somewhere else nearby.
The markings in question are (all in viola 1 part): 3 hairpins at end of m.100, 3 hairpins in margin & at beginning of m.103, dim. on 4th beat of m.105, and dim right at end of m.106.
Has anyone else experienced this? Can anyone help with this?
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Keith Lawrence
Comments
right-click->Select->more-> all similar elements->Del
Could you attach here your score?
In reply to right-click->Select->more->… by Shoichi
Or right-click->Select->more->all similar elements->Ctrl+R
That should make them all selectable, so you can then delete the unwanted
In reply to Or right-click->Select->more… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you very much for your help in this. Your suggestion did cure the problem (whilst creating a few anomalies nearby that I could fix; a small price to pay).
I'm curious about ctrl+R. I've never seen this before and cannot find it anywhere else in the manual. Does it have other uses.
Again, thanks.
KL
In reply to Thank you very much for your… by guarnerius4me
ctrl+r return anything selected to the default settings they would have if they were entered in their current position. In other words changes all of the offsets to 0 and any position options to automatic. So for example, the stems for all notes in voice 2 will be pointed down and articulations like staccato will return to where they would be if they were entered on their current note. Everything selected has its defaults restored.
In reply to ctrl+r return anything… by mike320
Thank you, Mike.
KL
From my experience this is the explanation.
The reason the stray hairpins have appeared is that they were entered somewhere else in the score and "adjusted" by either dragging them or using ctrl+arrows to adjust them. They were most likely are made to cross a page boundary if you looked at them in page view. This is a known problem, but for some reason is difficult to fix. I don't program so I don't understand why. The way to enter a hairpin is to select the first note then shift+click the last note affected by it. If for some reason it needs to be changed to affect more or fewer notes, use shift+arrows for this. If you have an end of the hairpin on a long note and want to to look like it covers only part of the note, you can either drag it or use ctrl+arrows to adjust it within a note only - do this while in page view only. This will prevent hairpins from wondering around on the score. There is one exception to this. If you are going to put the score in an album, any dragging or using ctrl+arrows will (almost always) result in the hairpins wondering when the album is assembled, so it is better to avoid adjusting hairpins in scores until after an album has the scores joined.