How do I delete repeat signs?

• Feb 13, 2012 - 18:45

Can't seem to delete/cut repeat signs... Why is this?

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• Feb 13, 2012 - 19:23

Sometimes you have to reload the score before the deletion shows up.

Maybe this is the case here?

Incidentally there is no point trying to cut voltas or repeat barlines as they won't paste afterwards.

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• Feb 13, 2012 - 19:42

Hi

Please forgive my earlier comment about Musescore being clumsy. I fully appreciate that considering it's free, it's a truly great program with a lot of potential and I greatly look forward to seeing how it shapes up in future.

That said however, I still feel though it should be more intuitive in terms of deleting anything that's been entered—With a text editor anything letter, punctuation etc, can deleted instantly. Musescore has already been compared to a text editor in the online tutorials. If it can be made to behave like this in future releases, this would be good because virtually everybody knows about to work text editors.

Kind regards

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• Feb 13, 2012 - 19:55

Do feel free to post your ideas for improvement in the Features forum.

The strength of Open Source software is that it's the users who control what goes into the software, assuming it's possible for the developers to program it.

The deleting issues you refer to are a known bug, and as I have said they are being addressed by the programming team.

Only we users can inform them about problems in the software - if you find something wrong, please do post here initially, then possibly file an issue in the issue tracker if it has not been reported before.

Regards
Michael

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• Feb 14, 2012 - 03:16

Most things *can* be deleted by simply hitting delete, so it's intended to be exactly as intuitve as you say. If you are running into a case where that's not true, then it"s probably a bug. Posting a sample score and steps to reproduce would help the developers find and fix the bug. FWIW, I've never had problems deleting a repeat sigm, so it's not a bug that affects all repeat signs all the time. Must be something unique to your particualr score.

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• Mar 8, 2018 - 02:05

I can't delete them either. As a matter of fact, I'm completely unsure as to how they are supposed to be deleted, since nothing I've tried works and the manual is silent on the matter. If there actually is a plan for how repeat barlines should be removed then a comment in the manual page that describes inserting them would not be out of place, and would at least help assure that bug reports on the subject are really reports of bugs rather than reports of operator ignorance.

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• Mar 8, 2018 - 02:23

As mentioned elsewhere in this thrwad, repeat signs and forth everything else are deleted by clicking them and pressing Delete, just as with pretty much any other program. No special procedures or unusual instructions should be required. If you have some specific score where this isn't working for some specific element, best to ask for help in the Support forum, attach your score, and say which specific element isn't responding to click & Delete for you.

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