flipping stems
When I select a bunch of notes to flip stems, it does it but it also puts the lyric above the staff. How can I flip stems but leave the lyrics where they were? And why on earth would it do that? It seems like a bug.
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If you just select the notes, or the stems, or the beans, it would flip only the stems, but in a range selection of you flip everything that is flipable, including lyrics
In reply to If you just select the notes… by Jojo-Schmitz
@Colleen R Kitchen, use Filter (F6) when it is useful.
Using the filter to exclude the lyrics from the selection is indeed a good idea. Or, get the stems the way you want before adding lyrics. Or, step back and consider, why are you needing to flip so many stems? normally that would be a pretty rare operation. Perhaps there is something "off" in how you are using multiple voices? Feel free to attach a sample score and explain why you want the stems flipped, and maybe we can suggest how to avoid that need in the first place.
Thanks for all the answers. I needed to flip lots of stems because I transposed an existing score with lyrics already in it, and the stems in the result were not ideal. There was only one voice. I don't know why it screwed them up so much. Is there some option regarding stems on transposing that I don't know about? I am on a Mac which does not have function keys. EXACTLY how do I use this F6 filter of which you speak?
In reply to Thanks for all the answers. … by Colleen R Kitchen
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/copy-and-paste#selection-filter
In reply to Thanks for all the answers. … by Colleen R Kitchen
The Selection Filter is found in the View menu.
Normally stems should fix themselves when you transpose. Only times they wouldn’t is if you had previous locked them into their previous positions, or if this happened as a result of MusicXML or other import. Either way, what you really want to do is set them back to auto. Select
the notes and press Ctrl+R. If this was an import, that’s actually the first step always recommend.