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• • June 7, 2020 at 6:13 pm #1256377
    Phillip Maas

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    Hi. I’m trying to put music notes so that the text will stay in the same position. I use the font Maestro, though also have “Engraver Font” and Jazz. When I insert the note as a Meastro font, or even use an inline graphic, the text moves (in this case, off the screen because I’m in a fixed-space table, but experience tells me it’s way down the page – I would have thought that’s a leading thing, but overriding it doesn’t help).

    I need the text to stay where it is, as this is an answer sheet to be overlayed on a non-answered layer. I have a video at https://www.dropbox.com/s/v1ojsz1cgf6rynw/Music%20notes%20in%20InDesign.mp4?dl=0 if a picture helps paint 1000 words.

    Thanks for any help.

    Phil

  • June 8, 2020 at 4:25 am #1253785
    Chris Thompson

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    Useful video explanation.
    What happens if you reduce the font size for the musical note characters?
    It looks to me as if the notes, despite being 11 point, actually extend far beyond the expected height of an uppercase letter, and *that’s* what’s causing the overset table cell, rather than the leading.

  • June 8, 2020 at 7:37 am #1253861
    Phillip Maas

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    You’ve latched onto something, Chris. I have the letter as Calibri 11, and Maestro is therefore 11 (the properties window tells me that). If I change it to 9, it comes back into view, but it’s too small to be what I need it to be. It needs to stand out as a “bigger” letter because in the scheme of things, it’s not all that big to the eye. (That is proportionately right for music).

  • June 8, 2020 at 7:43 am #1253878
    Chris Thompson

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    “Something’s gotta give”, as the song goes.
    If you can’t change the cell row height, try reducing the top and bottom text inset/indent on the table cells? And play with the position in the cell – vertically-centred or bottom-aligned probably, unless you have notes with descending as well as ascending “stalks” or whatever the technical term is.
    Or look for a musical notes font that has shorter stalks and stubbier circular bits?

  • June 8, 2020 at 7:47 am #1253885
    Phillip Maas

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    Thanks Chris. It’s just past midnight where I am, and unfortunately, I’m working on similar stuff. I ended up using the “plant a graphic” as my workaround, then grouped everything to get around my problem for the sake of filming. Took me a bit, and now I’m close to midnight on the next task. I’ll review your comments and take them on board when in a slightly clearer state of mind, since I think this will be arising a little.

  • June 9, 2020 at 2:10 am #1254205
    Chris Thompson

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    Stem – thanks – I knew that once, and now I know it again!
    Any luck with a better solution than planted graphics?

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