On May 4, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Owain Sutton wrote:
The Staff Style stem settings don't let you change the normal stem
length or the stem line thickness. These can only be done globally,
which I've found to be an issue in the past.
The endpoint away from the notehead is the stem length. It can be
changed in a Staff Style.
You mean the 'use vertical offset for beam end' option? It doesn't
appear to modify the normal stem length in the same way as in Document
Settings, but rather extends all stems to a particular horizontal
position.
Oopsie! My fault for not checking.
I can't see it being very difficult from a programming point of view to
include all the stem options in a staff style. Request it, and they
might be able to implement it.
It's true that you can't make the stems THINNER, but you can
make them
thicker by overlaying a note expression or articulation that
is set to
position automatically. You could even make thin stems by hiding the
stems completely and adding a thin stem line as an expression. Once
again, if you set it up carefully to auto position, you could
work very
quickly from then on. I could see how you could hold down the thick
stem articulation metatool, drag over an entire passage, and when you
release the mouse, every note has a thick stem.
The whole point of this exchange is to identify failures in the
software. Having to jump through these hoops to achieve something very
simple, because it can only have one setting per document, is a failing
in my eyes.
I dunno, this kind of thing is so rare, don't you think, that it might
not make much sense to have a feature specifically for it, especially
when a workaround IS relatively simple.
Stem connections are one thing (these should work properly, in the
expected context) but different stem thicknesses in the same document?
There are so many things that don't work that ARE much more common,
like ossias, chord symbol transposition in no-key-sig transposed parts,
pickup measures, lyric spacing, chord symbol spacing, figured bass,
chord suffix kerning, font embedding in EPS, the list goes on...
Christopher
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