Feature request: dynamics and hairpins should automatically go above vocal staves

[nweininger]

Transferring a very old feature request here from: https://musescore.org/en/comment/1193294#comment-1193294

Still a major issue for large scores containing both vocal and instrumental staves, where no one default placement is right for all instruments.

[bkunda]

There's an easy way to achieve this already – by changing the Position of a dynamic/hairpin and choosing "Set as default style for this score".
I'll leave it to @oktophonie to decide whether this should be set as default for vocal staves.

[MarcSabatella]

The problem is that this setting is score-wide. The request here is to make it staff-specific, so that mixed instrumental/vocal scores can have correct dynamic placement by default on all staves. Which absolutely makes sense to me. The hard part is figuring out which other style settings are worth making staff-specific and how to design the UI for that.

[nweininger]

FWIW, for a minimal UI option, I think having the dynamics position dropdown in Format -> Style -> Dynamics have an "Auto" setting along with "Above" and "Below", where in "Auto" mode MuseScore just selects a position for each staff based on the type of instrument, would satisfy most choral-orchestral composers.

[oktophonie]

Duplicate of #16509 and very much on the radar.