Diagonal Line
I'm using Line from the Lines palette to point from one note on the bass clef to another note on the treble clef. Also I have to deselect auto placement to get the line to point from one note to the other. The issue I'm having is when there is an edit to the measure, staff etc. I would have to readjust the line placement again. I was wondering if there is a way to anchor the line from on note to the other so that whatever adjustment is the line will always point to note it's suppose to point to?
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The better way to do this is to use Add / Lines / Note Anchored Lines. Then you don't need workarounds - it automatically connects two notes and updates correctly as the layout changes.
In reply to The better way to do this is… by Marc Sabatella
Whoa, didn't know about this. I thought it was equivalent to selecting two note heads and placing a line, but it isn't! Add->Lines->N.A.L. also uses diagonality and extends the line a bit more into touching the note heads, and follows pitch/layout changes. Thanks for the tip. P.S., shouldn't this be in the palettes too though? It almost feels like a 'hidden' feature what with the focus on the palette.
In reply to Whoa, didn't know about this… by worldwideweary
It should probably be on the palette indeed. A complication is that there is no obvious way to differentiate the icon visually from the regular line. We could hack something up I'm sure, but so far no one has gone ahead and done it.
In reply to It should probably be on the… by Marc Sabatella
Hack: Make it look like a horizontal ambitus.
Maybe easier said than done.
In reply to Hack: Make it look like a… by mike320
Nice idea! Right now, the rest of the lines on the palette are real lines actually drawn on a score (the "gscore"). The ambitus is, I suspect, an icon that is simply displayed as is, And that is indeed one possible approach to use here, could be literally just the ambitus icon rotated. Beats developing a new icon.
In reply to It should probably be on the… by Marc Sabatella
To differentiate, draw a staff + use tooltip
![Note_Anchored_Line.png]( "Note_Anchored_Line.png")
In reply to To differentiate, draw a… by Jm6stringer
That's not a bad idea either, there is a simple flag to control whether the staff lines are drawn. Drawing it diagonally would probably help make the point, but still, it doesn't really tell the story of connecting notes.