At 6:46 PM -0500 11/09/02, Giz Bowe wrote:
I usually have the "Avoid collisions" box checked for chords, but it has the unfortunate quality of messing up music spacing, even if there is only one chord in the measure. Furthermore, if there happens to be, say 4 chords in a measure, they still collide! I'm using WinFin2k3r2.
Is there any setting which would avoid these problems?
Thanks!
No, there isn't, darn it all to heck. I wish Coda would fix the collision algorithm so that it only avoids REAL collisions, instead of every possible collision.
Here is what I do to avoid those nasty pileups when I have four chords in a bar and they are Am7(b5)/D, D13(b9#11), Abm7(b5)/Db, Db13(b9#11) heaven help us all.
Turn off avoid collisions for chords, then space the whole part. Turn chord avoidance back on again, then go through the part looking for measures with bad collisions. If you come across a measure like my example, select it with the Mass Mover and hit 4 (above letter E on the computer keyboard, not the numeric keypad) which will respace that bar only. If there is only a minor collision, making the measure wider can fix it without ruining everything. You can also drop the last measure in that system to the next lower system to open up some more space, but make sure you follow that with command-U to reflow the following systems. Also a possibility is dragging or nudging with the arrows keys the chord symbol slightly to the left or right. For a whole bunch of slight crowding, resizing the staff smaller with the % tool can help, though I hate seeing chorded parts smaller than 80% or so.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. If you have 4 chords per bar in a measure of eighth notes, manual respacing is the only solution. The "avoid chord collision" idea breaks completely, giving wild, insane, irregular spacing. Sorry.
Chirstopher
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