Best Text Object for Marking a Note
In Barbershop scores, the leads generally sing below the tenors. When, on occasion, they sing above the tenors, the note is marked with an 'x' above the treble staff.
What text object is best suited for this purpose?
Comments
Staff text
In reply to Staff text by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you. The plethora of text options is a little confusing and the tool tips are unhelpful.
In reply to Thank you. The plethora of… by Bach Im Not
There's way more possible uses for text than we could possibly anticipate or document, but we do document the purposes of each text type in the Handbook, so I would definitely start there.
Staff text = text attached to a staff
System text = text attached to a system (eg, a collection of staves, like the two or four staves in a barbershop quartet arrangement)
Since the text is attached to the staff, it actually wouldn't necessarily be obvious to a person reading which specific note it applies to. Maybe it's obvious from the context, but if it you ever want to attach text to one note only and have it be obvious which note it applies to, try the various "fingering" options. In particular, LH Gutar Fingering" displays immediately to the left of the note normally.
If you have further questions, please attach your score so we can understand and assist better.
In reply to There's way more possible… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you, Mark. I understand the enormous ground that has to be covered by generic text and I'm not suggesting that this particular case deserves any more attention than it's already received. The Handbook should probably have been my first stop. I got lazy.
Staff text has worked very well, even permitting a single copy and multiple paste operations across different sections of the score. Now, rhetorically, if only there were an automatic way of doing this :-).
I'll have a look at fingering but since, by convention, it's already contextually obvious to which note it applies, I don't see it as a major requirement . If the Leads can't figure it out by looking a the music without the 'x', they're not a smart as I thought they were :-). Yeah...I'm a Bari.