07-06-2024, 09:12 PM
Moving annotations is my biggest pain point with MS. It works pretty well for almost everything that I need but as soon as I want to move annotations I mostly have to fall back to erasing the original annotations and redraw them in the desired position, which is more than annoying. I usually make lead sheets when learning new songs, meaning I create a blank page and use a stylus to sketch out the structure and add accents and whatnot. When I then want to refine or change the structure of the lead sheet I often have to draw more stuff in between existing annotations, meaning I have to move some of them around to make space. This is almost impossible at the moment for several reasons:
1. I can't use the automatic grouping (combine freeform annotations) because in 99% of cases it groups parts that I don't want to be grouped (like some text and half of a staff below it).
2. This means I have to disable the freeform combining, which in itself would be fine, but moving them around with the nudging tool is painfully slow. I can see each individual annotation move one after another and it takes almost 10min to move a bit of text down a few centimeters.
3. The nudging tool is way too slow in general.
I'd prefer to be able to drag and drop the selected annotations (like option 1 from the previous posts). If moving all the annotations is too performance intensive for some reason, just showing the bounding box while dragging would also be enough for me. I really just need a way to move any annotations around quickly, it doesn't have to be pretty.
1. I can't use the automatic grouping (combine freeform annotations) because in 99% of cases it groups parts that I don't want to be grouped (like some text and half of a staff below it).
2. This means I have to disable the freeform combining, which in itself would be fine, but moving them around with the nudging tool is painfully slow. I can see each individual annotation move one after another and it takes almost 10min to move a bit of text down a few centimeters.
3. The nudging tool is way too slow in general.
I'd prefer to be able to drag and drop the selected annotations (like option 1 from the previous posts). If moving all the annotations is too performance intensive for some reason, just showing the bounding box while dragging would also be enough for me. I really just need a way to move any annotations around quickly, it doesn't have to be pretty.