denitronik Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Is there a trick to get global text in the score editor. I read the LPX manual on this subject and can seem to understand why is almost never works. I say almost because sometimes is does work. I'm just trying to put a song title. I drag a TEXT object from the score inspector to the top margin of the score ( in score view) and the text is only linked to the top instrument, not the whole score and to each individual instrument. I tried this with the default "All Instruments" score set and with my own score set. I still get a very inconsistent result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlas007 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Position seems critical: Drag a text object from the Part box to one of the following areas of the page: In the header space (set in Layout > Global Format). Outside, or directly on, any of the page margin lines. After you add global text to one of the margin areas, you can move it anywhere on the p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volovicg Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 In addition to Atlas's comments let me add this. 1/ Turning on guides for selected or dragged objects helps you determine the root anchor point of the global text object. 2/ Turning on margins can be very handy as well to see where the guides terminate. 3/ You should try to insert global text by not dragging it over staves/measure but by coming in from the top or side. When the help tag has a negative number for the bar ( then you are inserting global text) however that is not the case if you drag it across staffs first - you will then get a bar number, however while you may think it will attach to the bar - if you drag up outside the page boundaries and back in again the guideline will attached as global text ( even though the help tag indicates a measure). 4/ Remember as long as you get it in as global text, you can always change whether it in the Free/Top/header etc by using the inspector. ( this is my workflow - get it in as global text and then use the inspector to attach it as appropriate rather than trying to drag it to a specific location. Thoughts - "for song titles" - I prefer to use the free zone as the position of the text is not altered should you change the margins or the headers. Just my preference. See animation below for visual on guidelines, help tag, inspector zones and margins. adding global text Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volovicg Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Also forgot to mention that any text inserted between the header line and the top margin or above the top margin with the pencil tool will by default be global text. Inserting global text with the pencil tool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denitronik Posted August 22, 2015 Author Share Posted August 22, 2015 Thank you for the help. I will try your advice. I think your #3 comment volovicq is why I having this inconsistent behavior; i was probably dragging my global text over stave? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airforceguitar Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Brilliant little animated GIFs volovicg! Made it perfectly clear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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