tab fingering placement should be above or below tab
When I add fingering to guitar tablature, the fingering is placed beside the note on the tab. The LH Guitar Fingering placement property allows Above or Below staff, but this setting is ignored. How do I get fingering placed below the staff?
Thanks,
Ed
musescore 3.4.2.25137
macos catalina 10.15.3
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Comments
In reply to [inline:20041603.png] by Shoichi
Thank you. Is this is a bug in LH Guitar Fingering and the workaround is to use Fingering instead?
In reply to Thank you. Is this is a bug… by edrmiller
I'm not sure, I don't remember exactly when it was implemented. But it's probably by design, and that's what is expected by guitarists (or probably the majority of them) since this LH fingering is really problematic in terms of visibility/readability and confusion with fret numbers. Besides, you yourself were looking for the possibility to place these fingerings differently.
So, for TAB, use the very first series of numbers in the palette ("Fingering" simple, therefore). By default, they are placed above, but you can toggle them below the staff ("X" shortcut, or via the Inspector, above vs. below).
In reply to I'm not sure, I don't… by cadiz1
Will do. I had just assumed that LH Guitar Fingering should be used for guitar parts but I see now that is not necessarily so.
In reply to Will do. I had just assumed… by edrmiller
To be clear: it should be, if you want standard placement for LH guitar fingering, which is on the staff. Only if you want something other than standard placement should you use a different style. And I can certainly see why if you're showing fingering on tab, you probably don't want standard LH guitar fingering placement
In reply to To be clear: it should be,… by Marc Sabatella
Good to know. Maybe the distinction between these fingering styles could be mentioned in the handbook?
Fingering isn't normally used on tab at all, so originally fingering was completely disabled on tab staves. But a few people wanted it, so an option to add it was added later. Since there is no standard for fingering on tab staves, we simply use the usual standard employed on standard staves.
In reply to Fingering isn't normally… by Marc Sabatella
It's just confusing to have the Placement property enabled if it isn't implemented.
PS, I've seen lots of handwritten tab with fingering.
In reply to It's just confusing to have… by edrmiller
No doubt it exists, which is why the option was added. But since it is almost never encountered in published scores, that's what I mean about there not really being any specific standards for it.
Anyhow, Placement is a general property for fingering as a type, but it is true it doesn't necessarily have meaning for any specific style of fingering. Still, it would probably be confusing to have this field come and go as you change text styles. Maybe at best it should be grayed out. Feel free to file a formal Suggestion to the issue tracker for that.
In reply to No doubt it exists, which is… by Marc Sabatella
I agree that non-operative fields should be grayed out.