Dotted Notes
When you have a dotted note, is there anyway you can re-position the dot so it's either higher or lower than its original position??
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When you have a dotted note, is there anyway you can re-position the dot so it's either higher or lower than its original position??
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I tried all the select and drag things I could think of , the dots seem to move with the note heads. I tried various control shift and alt combinations with single and double clicks, both left and right.
Note heads always pop to exact alignment with lines or spaces when you drag and drop them, but many other things, including stems, can be tweaked separately. The default dot positions look fine to me, why would you want to move them?
-- J.S.
In reply to Good question.... by John Sprung
Well I have two voices, and the first voice had like a B and G and then the second voice had a F, so the dot on the G was like in the center of the F head, and I wanted to shift it up so it would be on top of the head and not in the center of it.
In reply to Well I have two voices, and by iLoveJesus28
As far as I am aware you can not change the position of the dot. However, you can fix your problem without the dot. When in musescore press z and a menu of symbols will appear. Look for a dot that shows the word staccato when you hover your mouse over it. This dot is the same size as the dot used for dotted notes. Drag it to the appropriate spot in your score and no one should be able to tell the difference. There is one problem though, in your playback that note will now be played staccato, to fix that drag your dot to a rest first then to the note you want dotted. That way the rest will be staccato, which is the same as a regular rest.
In reply to As far as I am aware you can by flutepianist
Thank you!!
In reply to Thank you!! by iLoveJesus28
I am glad I could help, but someone should figure out how to move dots. to make it easier for future users.
In reply to You're Welcome by flutepianist
The new version (v2) in development allows moving the dots, not the 1.x versions. Also, these collision issues between notes/flags/dots are also being dealt with in v2.
In reply to Well I have two voices, and by iLoveJesus28
Each bar is a copy of the previous one, with more steps performed on it:
Bar 1, I entered the notes as described, dotted B and G in voice 1, a non-dotted F in voice 2. F and G overwrite each other.
Bar 2, double click on the F notehead, move it to the right four arrow clicks. Click on a blank place to bring the stem and flag along. This looks OK to me.
Bar 3, moving the notes up one to C, A, and G now has the G notehead overwriting the A's dot.
Bar 4, using the double click and arrow solves the overwrite, but puts the stems out of line.
Bar 5, dragging the stems and flags around makes this mess....
At this point, we need someone who knows more than I do to say how it should really look.
-- J.S.