Small ties
Submitted by David Bolton on August 7, 2009 - 10:32pm.
| Project: | MuseScore |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Description
Isaac reports: http://musescore.org/en/node/2267
"My system:
-Ubuntu 9.04
-MuseScore 0.9.4
When creating ties between notes that do not take up a lot of horizontal space on the staff (such as 16th notes), you can hardly see the ties at all (see attached). This is very annoying because, in order to make it readable, you have to either increase the measure spacing a lot, or go into edit mode, and make it larger yourself. The second option is extremely tedious, because all the handles are right next to each other, and it it nearly impossible to tell one from the other.
Has this been fixed in the latest prerelease?
If not, here is how to reproduce it:
1) in an empty score, go to the first measure and input two 16th notes, one right after the other
2) tie them together.
If you are at 100% zoom, you will likely not be able to see the tie at all. However, the attached screenshot is at 150% zoom (because I like 150% better than 100%).
Attachment: small_tie.jpg"
(Confirmed using self-built r.2002, Windows XP)
for some reason, this bug has not been taken into account lately, but I believe it to be of incremental importance.
It still occurs even in Nightly 2370 as the screenshot shows.
It is extremely important that this gets fixed as soon as possible, because it's a h@ck of a pain to print out a fullscore and have tie not show up...... Especially in modern music where you have a considerable amount of tied notes.....
Please developers, when you have time, try to fix this.
Critical priority is reserved for bugs that lose or corrupt your data.
In case you were not aware there are a couple workarounds you can consider before this bug gets fixed. If you give the measure more space then the ties look fine. You can insert line breaks to achieve this. The second workaround is to edit the ties individually. Zoom in, double click and edit the handles as described in the handbook (see bottom half of slur).
As a side note, it is assumed that the bug applies to the latest nightly unless it is marked as fixed.
oh, ok. I didn't know that critical was reserved for that.
Yes, I know the routine of a bug being considered as occurring also in the latest nightly, but we both now that it's something else if someone posts that it it really happens in the latest one as well.
I know about the workarounds, but I personally would rather wait until it is fixed.
Reason? too many ties to edit..........
Out of curiosity, do the ties- that you need to edit in these situations- do they playback properly, also? I just posted a bug about that issue, also.
yes, they play back properly, THANK GOD!!!
they just don't show right on the score
ties are definitively too small. Would it be possible to fix this bug?
If notes are too close for the tie to be visible, Finale 2007 increases the space to a default minimum.
To see this behavior in action watch the following clip:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/892408/musescore/close%20tie.theora.ogv