Fingerings and accidentals

• Dec 16, 2015 - 08:21

I tried again to type in guitar fingerings with my touchscreen notebook and I was delighted by the automatic layout - it works! Especially without a mouse it is very convenient that most fingerings are sensibly placed now. Many thanks for this!

Having said that, in my case fingerings colliding with accidentals is the most urgent issue (this becomes really annoying when trying to use finger input only. It is great that new fingerings are selected by default, enabling you to directly move them with the arrow keys. However, since they are ALWAYS colliding with any existing accidentals, the standard place-fingering-left-to-the-note should be changed in this case. I think almost any behaviour should be better in this case, since now it seems to be always wrong. What might be a good solution? Placing the note to the right or on top by default? Moving the accidental?

Personally I would prefer the fingering to be placed as near as possible, i.e. to the right of the notehead. Any solution would be appreciated however!

Thanks for your reply!

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• Dec 16, 2015 - 08:43

In this case, use the first serie of numbers (optimized for piano eg) instead of the serie of numbers for guitar ? And so, the number avoids the collision with accidentals by placing it above the note (above and below if two voices). Satisfying ?

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• Dec 16, 2015 - 18:26

Gould shows the fingering to the left of the accidental, or above, either of which makes sense depending on context. Probably the best automatic position would be to the left. We probably wouldn't be able to make it automatically update if the accidental changes, but selecting and Ctrl+R re-calculates the automatic placement, so presumably that would work.\

If people agree that is best, I can look into how feasible this is to implement. Probably not terribly difficult.

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