I have a piano staff with notes entered in the treble staff and some of them dragged down to the bass staff. I find I am unable to get articulations positioned correctly on the cross-staff notes -- even when I drag them to where I want them, they bounce to some completely different position when I do a screen redraw.
I'm still on 2k2 (bought 2k4 but haven't installed it yet) but it's probably no different. Articulations on cross-staff notes have been screwy for as long as I can remember.
When you drag an articulation on a cross-staff note, the display routine during the dragging doesn't take the cross-staff into account properly, so during the drag (or nudge) you are in non-wysiwyg mode. The adjustment you make to the articulation is nevertheless applied correctly to the true position of the articulation.
Therefore, when you drag or nudge the articulation, you need to ignore how it appears on the screen during the drag and only think in terms of how far you're displacing it from where it appeared before the drag. Then when you think you have it right, do a redraw and see if it landed where you want.
This is a nuisance, but I find it much less disorienting with nudging than with dragging. (Also, it seems that dragging sometimes messes with the display position of the handle as well, whereas nudging doesn't have that problem.)
mdl
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