Text line: "Center" placement option
The attached file shows how various permutations of "Place" in "Line Properties" and "Alignment" in "Text Properties" affects the position of text in a text-line. However, several of these options are not usable, with the text separate from the line.
Feature request: Another option for "Place" in the "Line Properties" dialog (in addition to "Left" and "Top"/"Bottom"). This would be called "Center" and would allow the user to position the text relative to the center of the line. Example below:
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Comments
How is this supposed to work when that line spans a line break?
In reply to How is this supposed to work by Jojo-Schmitz
If word wrap were implemented in frames, it shouldn't be too hard to port it to lines.
Wordwrap would make so many text objects much easier to deal with rather than have them run off the edge of the page.
In reply to If word wrap were implemented by mike320
Might then collide with Continuation Text for the line. And how to center a single word?
In reply to Might then collide with by Jojo-Schmitz
You can delete the continuation text. In fact the default text line has no continuation text.
In reply to You can delete the by mike320
But the 'Center' feature would surely apply to all lines. And cause issue with those that do use continuation text, which is the majority.
I'm not saying this is impossible to do, just that it needs to be though trhough to the end and the desired behavoir needs top be clear in all possible cases.
In reply to But the 'Center' feature by Jojo-Schmitz
In the case of all of the existing lines with text in them, the default would remain as it is. For example diminuendo would leave the start text as it is with the (dim.) in the continuation text. This is much like the lines themselves for dim. are defaulted to wide dashes with no hook. The user has the ability to change it if they wish. If a user for some reason changes this default, they probably would not do it by accident. I haven't seen any posts asking why the line is invisible or continuous on a diminuendo, have you?
In the case of a single word, I would suggest the word be centered under the line on on the initial page with any continuation and end text (if any) following the format defined by the user.
Left, Center and Right justification buttons already exist in the text format for a line, but the results are not what one would expect.
It's a logical enough request, probably not hard to implement once we sort out the expected semantics in the various cases mentioned (behavior in the presence of line breaks etc). The question is, what real world use case does this apply to? That would help establish the expected semantics in the various different cases. Offhand i can't think of many. We read music left to right, so a bracket that occurs over one note with explanatory text not occurring until possibly several measures alter strikes me as a very bad idea. The one use case i can think of has to do with adding annotations to a score for analysis, a teacher adding comments, etc. And as such maybe it makes more sense to include such a facility in an annotation tool than in the actual notation.