Whole Rests Off-Center
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but when a measure has no notes in 4/4 time, it's got a whole rest in the center of the measure. If I am inputting notes and manually put a whole rest in a measure, it is off-center to the left.
You can see in the graphic that the three measures in the bottom staff have their whole rests centered, but in the middle measure of the top staff (where I pushed zero and inserted a whole rest), the rest is to the left in the measure.
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Sometimes I have ended up with two whole rests after deleting all notes in a bar. Usually I just see a messy combination of eigth, quarter and half rests adding up to a whole.
Basically, it's because there is a difference in MuseScore (and in music notation in general I believe) between a full measure rest and a whole rest.
To have a full measure rest, select the measure and press Del.
To enter a whole rest, select the whole note duration and press 0.
In reply to Basically, it's because there by [DELETED] 5
But I seem to recall that in previous versions of MuseScore prior to 1.0 that the whole rest was also centered in the measure. I was just wondering what changed, if it was intentional or not, and if it was, why.
I'm just very picky about the way my music looks, and the off-center whole rests drive me crazy. I go back, select those measures, and hit delete to make it look right, but that's an extra step.
In reply to Basically, it's because there by [DELETED] 5
I've just spent the last half hour reading about whole, half and whole-measure rests and their "appropriate" use in specific time signatures. It's not an area I've needed to go into much and basically I'm still very confused. There is not one unified school of thought, esp in compound time signatures, but the use (and display) of a whole-measure and whole-note rest in 4/4 time should be and look the same. There's nothing else that can be in the measure so there's no point in keeping it over to the right of the measure. Picky, but that condition should be detected and the whole-note rest moved to a properly-centered whole-measure rest.
Interesting effect when you write something in 6/4 time... you can have a mixture of bars with whole-note/half-note rests and whole-measure rests.
Update: I realize that with the use of multiple voices, the difference between a whole rest and a whole-measure rest becomes obvious. Assuming for the moment that the measure is entirely empty, then there's no functional difference between a whole and a whole-measure rest.
In reply to Rests by schepers
schepers, another situation where you would need a whole (semi-breve) rest instead of the full-measure (full-bar) rest is a pickup with an actual duration of 2/2 but a nominal time signature such as 4/2
In reply to schepers, another situation by David Bolton
This is the EXACT same thing that I was reporting and wanted fixed on an other thread that I can't find right now...
It would be cool if the Forums button could also show a "My posts" thing like the Issue tracker does! Now THAT would be helpful!
In reply to This is the EXACT same thing by tonyjustme
There is a 'my posts' thingy...
Goto 'Recent Posts', then 'my Recent Posts'
You (Daniel.) could also go to http://musescore.org/en/user/24128/track
In reply to There is a 'my posts' by Jojo-Schmitz
Yeah, but that's a whole load of clicks away, if it would have the same "arrow" bullet that the Issue Tracker has, it would be a lot easier!
How I love inherent intuitiveness!
In reply to Basically, it's because there by [DELETED] 5
lasconic: Thank you for telling me about this! I couldn't figure that out; I was trying to just place whole rests, but deleting the content in the measure is so much easier!