'Snap system text to barline?'

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Snap system text to barline? - ap1987, 14 Mar 08:55PM
     Re: Snap system text to barline? - Laurence Payne, 15 Mar 11:16AM
         Re: Snap system text to barline? - ap1987, 15 Mar 12:30PM
             Re: Snap system text to barline? - Laurence Payne, 15 Mar 12:57PM
                 Re: Snap system text to barline? - ap1987, 15 Mar 01:09PM
                     Re: Snap system text to barline? - Laurence Payne, 15 Mar 02:55PM

Snap system text to barline?
Posted by ap1987 - 14 Mar 08:55PM
Hello Everybody,

I'm preparing a score, which has a lot of quaver = quaver-like "metric modulations". My problem with the text style is that it should be fixed to the barline and centered, just like a rehearsal mark. Is it possible to do this with a general setting or I have to do this one by one manually? I can't find any option for this in the Edit Text Styles window. I've already tried to copy the Rehearsal Mark text style and set the font to the same as Tempo text, but the position becomes not fixed in the cloned version. It seems as being the unique setting of the Rehearsal Mark text style. I hope I'm wrong...

Thanks in advance,
Peter
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Re: Snap system text to barline?
Posted by Laurence Payne - 15 Mar 11:16AM
This is a tricky one, as you would presumably want the metric modulation to be centered on a barline mid-stave but left-aligned when it came at the start of a line.
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Re: Snap system text to barline?
Posted by ap1987 - 15 Mar 12:30PM
It should look like on the image attached. Allignment: just like a rehearsal mark.
Attachment metric_mod_center.png (27K)
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Re: Snap system text to barline?
Posted by Laurence Payne - 15 Mar 12:57PM
Yes, but what if the change is at the beginning of a stave?

Why the parentheses? q=q. No need to be apologetic about it.
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Re: Snap system text to barline?
Posted by ap1987 - 15 Mar 01:09PM
If it's at the beginning, then it should be indicated at the end of the previous staff also... another problem. About allignment? Good question. If there's a time signature, I would put it like having the = sign and the time signature itself in one column. If no time signatures, then maybe to the beginning of a staff, and yes, left-alligned.

Parentheses: I wouldn't do that in my compositions. But in this case, it's not my autograph, and the composer wants to have everything exactly the same way as he does. I should respect that.
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Re: Snap system text to barline?
Posted by Laurence Payne - 15 Mar 02:55PM (edited 15 Mar 02:56PM)
I wouldn't worry about stating it twice at a line break. Musicians look ahead.

But you take my point that any automatic positioning is often going to be wrong?
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Snap system text to barline? - ap1987, 14 Mar 08:55PM
     Re: Snap system text to barline? - Laurence Payne, 15 Mar 11:16AM
         Re: Snap system text to barline? - ap1987, 15 Mar 12:30PM
             Re: Snap system text to barline? - Laurence Payne, 15 Mar 12:57PM
                 Re: Snap system text to barline? - ap1987, 15 Mar 01:09PM
                     Re: Snap system text to barline? - Laurence Payne, 15 Mar 02:55PM