Slash Notation not changing note heads
As I just updated to version 4.2.1, I tried to toggle slash notation on several staves. While the function still centers notes in the middle of a staff, it no longer appears to update the note heads to slashes, which I now have to do manually. Is there a new setting to toggle whether this is automatic, or is it just a bug from this update?
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There was a bug reported recently involving a glitch that happens when turning rhythmic slash notation off and then back on again, only in scores that have parts - is this what you mean? See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/20804. There is a pending fix, but meanwhile, the workaround is to reset the notehead manually. It might also work to generate an addition part for that same instrument, oran addition linked but invisible staff - I suspect that if there are an odd number of linked copies it will work out right.
If you need help sorting this out, please attach your actual score and say exactly where the problem is occurring and then we can assist better.
In reply to There was a bug reported… by Marc Sabatella
From what I have dealt with, the problem seems similar, but not exactly the same, in that the notes do still get centered in the middle of the staff and function as slash notation (ie no note playback), but the note heads still remain and do not convert to slash heads
In reply to From what I have dealt with,… by Jamt2
Please attach your score and steps to reproduce the problem so we can investigate further. I'm guessing just a different symptom of the same underlying problem, with the different symptom resulting from your doing things in a different order from the original report.
In reply to From what I have dealt with,… by Jamt2
Can confirm, it happened to me as well, but in 4.2 already. Once I also somehow managed to get them to swap - I had, in the same bar, one note with slash head, no centering, and marked to play, and one with normal head, centering, and marked not to play. And using the toggle slash notation tool would switch them around. I think I achieved that by reapplying the toggle to only part of the measure, probably because it had successfully changed the notehead of one note but not the other, so I tried again but only on the part that bugged out?
In reply to Can confirm, it happened to… by Nicola Rulli
Again, it would help if you would attach your score and give precise instructions to reproduce the problem as you are seeing it. A fix for the origina problem has already been created, and we;’d love to test to see if it fixes the problems you are experiencing as well. I suspect it will - the actual slash notation code hasn’t changed, it is the property linking system that changed, and that’s where the fix is. Should address any similar issues, but we won’t know until we can reproduce your cases in 4.2.1 and see if the fix addresses those.
In reply to Again, it would help if you… by Marc Sabatella
I thought about it more, and I think what happened to me is simply a combination of the above mentioned bug (creating parts makes toggle not work correctly anymore) + me mistakenly applying the toggle first to only part of the measure then to the whole measure, and manually changing the heads to slashes in separate instances, leading to them being consistently eachother's opposite. I probably simply got confused because it was one of my first times encountering the bug, and in my attempt to fix it I created an even more confusing scenario.
Anyway, the reason for the different symptoms between the issue you linked and the one described by OP does seem to be a matter of different order of operations.