Staff Text Goes Above The Chord Symbols
If there is no Chord Symbol It is written what it should be. But If there is a chord symbol it is witten above the chord symbols.
How to fix that?
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This is correct, for the sorts of things staff was intended to be used for, that's the proper placement. Text like "Intro" is normally created as rehearsal marks and pretty much universally place above chord symbols in published music. If you have some special-purpose need to do otherwise, you can move the text after adding it (and this can be done for all such text at once. but I'd recommend using rehearsal amrks for this, because that's what they are, and MuseScore works best if you use the proper element types.
In reply to This is correct, for the… by Marc Sabatella
I removed "Intro"
Still Staff Text appears above Chord Symbols. (Format - Style - Text Styles - Staff - Offset - Y does not help.)
???
In reply to Thank you very much Marc… by zanshin777
I think you need to read Marc's response again. It is not the word "Intro" that causes this behaviour. But Staff Text was intended for text like "Intro" and therefore it is placed above chord symbols.
The expected behavior for text added as "Staff Text" is that it will be placed above chord symbols, regardless of what the text says.
In reply to I think you need to read… by AndreasKågedal
No he says;
"Text like "Intro" is normally created as rehearsal marks"
not Staff Text and I did what he told.
Actually
Both "Staff Text" and "System Text" WON'T BE affected by the offset settings at
"Format - Style - Text Styles - Offset - Y" !!!!!!!!!!
In reply to No he says; "Text like … by zanshin777
To be clear:
Standard practice is to not put any text except fingerings between a note and the chord symbol that applies there. So both staff text and rehearsal marks are normally placed abve chord symbols, according to the normal rules of music notation. So that is what MuseScore does by default. I was not meaning to suggest that changing from staff text to rehearsal mark would magically produce non-standard notaiton, just as that, as an aside, this text should not have been staff text in the first palce.
I highly recomment not creating non-standard notation without extremely good reason. Rehearsal marks like the "Intro" text normally go above chord symbols, that's where people are used to seeing them, that's where they are easiest to find during rehearsal or performance. So I would storngly urge you not to go out of way to create non-standard notation that will be harder to read.
But if you do have some special-purpose reason to do so, as I said, you will simply need to move the text into the desired position manually, because the default behavior of automatic placement will be to move text above chord symbols as per the normal rules of music notation.
In reply to No he says; "Text like … by zanshin777
Actually, I totally forgot, as of 3.1, you actually can set the style to allow text below chord symbols. Go to format / Style / Staff Text (or System Text, or Rehearsal Marks, etc) - don't go to the Text Style section. This gives you independent control over the position when placed above and below the staff (eg, the position when you press "X" to flip between above/below), but it also gives you an "Autoplace min. distance" setting. Just set that to a large negative number (eg, -999). This will effectively disable autoplace for that element type.
So to summarize:
The "offset" settings control the default position for elements before autoplace takes over. if there are no collisions, then this is the final position. If there is collision, then the element is moved to avoid the collision by the amount specified in "Autoplace min. distance". If that value is negative, then overlaps of that amount are allowed.
In reply to Actually, I totally forgot,… by Marc Sabatella
Interesting.
Thank you very much Marc Sabatella for your detailed answers.