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Pause over a rest on a 1 line staff

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 1:44 am
by xxrich
A pause over a quarter rest on a 1 line staff. I touch it, and it moves up to where I expect. I look away and it's back on top of the rest. How to fix without screwing anything else up? :-)

Re: Pause over a rest on a 1 line staff

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 1:57 am
by motet
This is a bug that's existed forever that MakeMusic is either unwilling or incapable of fixing. When you type Ctrl-D (redraw), you will be shown the real position. When you click on it it jumps to a false position, as you've seen. If you want to move it from its real position, I'm afraid it's a trial and error cycle of move it (click and then use arrow keys), redraw, move it, redraw, until it's where you want it.

Re: Pause over a rest on a 1 line staff

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 2:08 am
by xxrich
I totally agree with you as I haven't figured it out for quite some time. Odd, I just found one that is fine. Figures after I (finally) post. But no idea why it's fine and no idea how to fix the others (I'll copy the measure that works perhaps, and edit).

Re: Pause over a rest on a 1 line staff

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 9:05 am
by BuonTempi
motet wrote:This is a bug that's existed forever that MakeMusic is either unwilling or incapable of fixing.
Or other possibilities about which we cannot surmise. If they could fix it at the cost of breaking every existing document's articulations, would you be OK with that?

I think the problem stems from the conflict between setting an articulation with a given horizontal position and also telling it to place itself outside the staff. This is also why articulations refuse to nudge upwards for several nudges as they move from their numeric position up to the 'outside-the-staff' height, after which they start to move.
It's possible that adjusting the articulation definition might improve matters.

Re: Pause over a rest on a 1 line staff

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 11:26 am
by N Grossingink
Make a copy of the fermata and change the settings-

√ Uncheck "Always Place Outside of Staff"
√ Change position to "Manual".

Does this one work out for you?

N.

Re: Pause over a rest on a 1 line staff

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 3:32 pm
by motet
I played with the settings, including "place outside staff," with no improvement. Since this is a display issue, it's hard to imagine fixing it would break other files. People have been complaining about this for at least a decade.

Re: Pause over a rest on a 1 line staff

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 3:59 pm
by zuill
N Grossingink's method works for me. What's confusing the articulation seems to be that it thinks there are other staff lines there.

Zuill

Re: Pause over a rest on a 1 line staff

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 4:14 pm
by motet
I guess I didn't check "manual." Good to know. This seems to me to be related to the "dancing articulation" that can occur with a five-line staff (which is what I was referring to that has been around for at least a decade) but perhaps they're unrelated.

Re: Pause over a rest on a 1 line staff

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 1:38 am
by xxrich
Sorry for the can of worms :-) I thought of creating a duplicate articulation, just hated to have to do that. But I did and of course it works fine. Thanks all!
-rich

Re: Pause over a rest on a 1 line staff

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 1:53 pm
by ebiggs1
BuonTempi wrote:
motet wrote:This is a bug that's existed forever that MakeMusic is either unwilling or incapable of fixing.
... If they could fix it at the cost of breaking every existing document's articulations, would you be OK with that?
Absolutely. no question. It needs to be fixed and the sooner the better. IMHO, of course. My guess, they (MM) can't without wrecking the programming budget. Mark A. told me there was just so much money to fix things. Perhaps this is one that doesn't rate very high.

Re: Pause over a rest on a 1 line staff

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 2:45 pm
by zuill
Why not just create the fermata as an Expression? Then you won't have the articulation issue.

Zuill

Re: Pause over a rest on a 1 line staff

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2017 10:03 pm
by Vaughan
I do this often, especially for fermatas over barlines. It's easy to make one as an expression which always enters at the right spot without need for dragging away from a note or rest.