Small notes spacing
MS 2.0.2 Rev f51dc11 & Win 7 Pro
I'm trying to reproduce the layout as shown in 001.jpg. It's 4-part harmony, (TTBB) and I can produce the first two bars as expected for the 4 voices (the anacrusis and bar 1 in the attached file
"small notes test.mscz"
However, as shown in the original, there are optional notes shown as "small notes" inn the original so I decided the best way to include those would be to add them as small notes in voice 3, which I've done (bars 13/14 in the attached file) But the spacing is not what I want, the stem for the small-note C seems to be shared with the standard note C the head of which has been offset left as you can see.
I tried to move the small-note "C" in the treble clef using Inspector, but that just moved the note head.
What I'd like to do is the same as shown in the original, move the small-note C to the left of the Standard Sized note C, which stays in its usual position beneath the standard sized note F.
It must. be possible, surely, but I just cannot workout how to accomplish this.
Can anyone tell me what to do please?
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Comments
The answer is quite simple: You have to use the horizontal offset of the chord in the middle of the inspector, not the offset of the element. To get the stems at the desired position you can use the "mirror head" in the inspector.
In reply to The answer is quite simple: by KHS
Got It!!
Very many thanks.
Brilliant software and wonderful support.
Another neat capability to .
T>hanks again KHS
In reply to The answer is quite simple: by KHS
Amazing.
Now corrected the 12 occurrences in the piece and it looks far better than the original (but then I wouldn't expect anything else).
Can't wait for 2.0.3, then 2.1 then 3.0 and so on.
Yes, use the "Chord" section of the Inspector to affect the entire chord - all heads as well as stem, flag, etc. The "Note" section is basically just that note within the chord. For one-note chords, it's sometimes hard to guess what the distinction is, but it's usually more clear if you think about chord of multiple notes.
BTW, the default in MuseScore is that all upstem chords at a given time position share a stem if possible, as do all downstem chords. For some of the purposes for which people use multiple voices, this is what one wants; although in your case, it isn't. But it's easier to manually *unalign* things than to manually *align* them, which is one reason why I think the default makes sense regardless of which case is actually more common.