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Placement of accents

While on the subject of things to add (I've already been to the wish list).

Could we have control over which end of a note (head or stem) an accent is placed? This is needed in (at least) two cases.

1) Two notes with the same pitch but differing stem directions. The accent is often lost in the clutter.

2) Two layered notes whose heads are close togeather. In this case an accent my be hidden by the head of the "other" note, or it may be impossible to tell which not the accent belongs to.

Cyril
 

Re: Placement of accents

Reply #1 –
Hear, hear! I'd like to see this type of control not just for accents but also for other articulation marks (tenuto lines, staccato dots) and fermatas.

A third case where this would be useful is any chord with both up and down stems.

I added this to the wish list as soon as staff layering appeared in the product, and I'm glad to see others requesting it too.