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Title: Chord staff
Post by: Flurmy on 2010-09-21 07:07 AM
Often I write the chords on a separate "empty" staff that's layered over one of the others ("layer with next staff").
In this way it's easy to prepare the score for each instrument with che chord indication.

The problem is that the staff label that's printed is the one of the first layered staff.
Since the chord staff, to be easy to use, must be the one having "layer with next staff" checked, it happens that the combined staff label is the chord staff one, even if it's empty.

My suggestion is to make the combined staff label not that of the first staff indiscriminately but the one of the first layered staff with a non empty label.
Title: Re: Chord staff
Post by: Lawrie Pardy on 2010-09-21 07:10 AM
I work a little differently.  For me, it's the "other" staff that gets layered with the "chord" staff (I call it a lyrics staff 'cos I have the lyrics on it too.)  Thus I don't have this problem...
Title: Re: Chord staff
Post by: Rick G. on 2010-09-21 07:57 AM
My suggestion is to make the combined staff label not that of the first staff indiscriminately but the one of the first layered staff with a non empty label.
Concur
Title: Re: Chord staff
Post by: Flurmy on 2010-09-21 08:09 AM
Lawrie,
if the "layered" staff is the movable one you just move it on top of a standard one and you're done.
If the "layered" staff is each time a different one, you have to make it layered when you move the chord-lyrics-whatever to it and then remember to "unlayer" it when you need chord-lyrics-whatever elsewere.

That's why I wrote "to be easy to use".
Title: Re: Chord staff
Post by: Lawrie Pardy on 2010-09-21 12:03 PM
Hey flurmy,
you are correct, but nevertheless I find doing it the other way suits me better.
Title: Re: Chord staff
Post by: William Ashworth on 2010-09-21 04:30 PM
I concur with your suggestion, Maurizio. In the meantime, though, why don't you just label the chord staff with the label you want to display? The label and the staff name are different; you can keep track of the staves by their names, and then make the labels anything you want.
Title: Re: Chord staff
Post by: Flurmy on 2010-09-22 07:12 AM
Bill,
that's exactly what I do, and also why I proposed the change. ;-)