Single line cesura

• Jul 15, 2023 - 07:11

Now MuseScore has finally got it... but the design is not as one might have expected: it is a | but not a / (as it is supposed to be).

Why??

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• Jul 15, 2023 - 18:19

Look at the SMuFL page for Holds and pauses:
https://w3c.github.io/smufl/latest/tables/holds-and-pauses.html#holds-a…

The main section "Holds and pauses (U+E4C0–U+E4DF)" shows the caesuras which are already in MuseScore's "Breaths and pauses" palette: Curved caesura, Caesura, Short caesura, Thick caesura.

But you have to look further down to the section "Recommended stylistic alternates" to find the slanted single-stroke caesura which you want:
uniE4D1.salt01
caesuraSingleStroke
Caesura (single stroke)

There is a slanted single-stroke caesura in the Breaths and pauses palette (in More...), but it doesn't look like the SMuFL symbol caesuraSingleStroke. So you definitely need to make a new issue on Github, requesting that the SMuFL caesuraSingleStroke be added to the MS Breaths and Pauses palette. See:
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues

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• Jul 18, 2023 - 16:15

The MuseScore palette seems to include this SMuFL symbol (which is vertical, not slanted):
U+E4D7
caesuraSingleStroke
Single stroke caesura

But I don't think that MuseScore has this slanted SMuFL symbol:
Caesure-single-stroke_uniE4D1.salt01.jpg

The only slanted single-stroke caesura in MS 4 is described in the hint simply as "Caesura" and appears much shorter than uniE4D1.salt01. See screenshot:
Breaths_and_pauses_MS4.jpg

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• Oct 17, 2023 - 11:24

On the Steinberg forum in February 2019, Daniel Spreadbury (Dorico lead) wrote a response about a similar request to add a slanted single caesura to Dorico:
https://forums.steinberg.net/t/breath-marks/666093/17

His reply about adding the symbol to SMuFL was as follows (my emphasis):

"I think it’s fine to request the single-stroke caesura as its own thing, rather than as an alternate. I’m not sure it’s any more of an alternate than, say, the bold caesura or the curved one. What I suggest you do is add an issue on GitHub requesting the addition of the single-stroke caesura (which you do here), and we’ll consider it (though not for SMuFL 1.3, which is done and more or less dusted at this point). Please include one or two citations for where the symbol appears in published music if possible."

So... until the request is justified, discussed, approved and implemented in the next version of SMuFL I don't think MuseScore can implement this good idea.

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