I'm new to User Tools. I'm thrilled to find "Transpose Chords" tool, which transposes all my text chord names. But sometimes when I transpose a song, I need all the chord names to move 1 or 2 positions higher or lower. Before I reinvent the wheel, does a user tool exist that would let me input the position I'd like the chord names to end up in?
Yup, I use the one called "Global_Mod" to do this all the time.
In the Group ".Starter Tools" you will find "Global Modification (adp)".
If you run this tool you'll get a dialogue box that asks you to "Enter your global modification expression:" and there will be a default "help" highlighted in the box.
Change this to:
Text,Font==font_name Pos+=2
Where font_name is the font you're using (as shown in the Name column of the Fonts tab of the page setup dialogue) - I always set "SwingChord" as User6 so for me the expression would be:
Text,Font==User6 Pos+=2
The Pos+=2 will move every instance UP 2 positions.
You could use other numbers instead of 2 if you want. Also, Pos=-2 will move them DOWN 2 positions. Or you could use, say, Pos=14 to set ALL of them to Pos 14
NOTE there is a space between the font name and the "Pos" directive - these commands are case sensitive too.
For more information on using user tools see my guide:
https://nwc-scriptorium.org/nwc2scripts/invocationinstructions.pdf
Also see:
https://nwc-scriptorium.org/nwc2scripts.html
for other user tools and their instructions. This section hasn't seen much change for a while as most user tools etc are revealed in the "User Tools" section of the "Tips & Tricks" main forum these days:
https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?board=7.0
What Lawrie said, plus this: if you don't want to have to work out the proper command syntax, use GlobalMod.og instead. It'll walk you through designing the command using a set of easily-understood queries.
... or use the filtered properties.
THANK YOU! I saw the Global Modification and thought that was my answer, but could never get the syntax right. Got it now! Thanks so much, guys!
By the way, where would I find the GlobalMod.og?
I had a hard time finding it also, until I realized it is actually named GlobMod.og (https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=9383.msg67062#msg67062).
Interesting. My copy of it is named GlobalMod.og. Opagust....?
Actually, I guess we are both right. The forum post has "GlobMod.og" in the title, but the attached file is named "GlobalMod.og". Unfortunately, when you do a forum search on "GlobalMod.og", the only hits you get are you & I arguing about the name :) The search function doesn't find the attached file name.
Perhaps
@Opagust should edit the forum post title so its name agrees with the attachment, in case other people are trying to find it in the future.
Done :-[
Thanks, Mike, I humbly apologize.