Beam and stem of cross-staff notes don't flip
Priority
P2 - Medium
Type
Functional
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
1. Open attached score (produced in 1.3).
2. Click on the first note.
3. 'Flip direction'.
Expected result: The stems and beam flip downwards, below all notes.
Actual result: Nothing happens.
Notes:
A similar result with the notes in the treble stave (neither the stems or beam flip upwards, above the notes).
It is also reproducible in 2.0.
Using MuseScore 2.0 Nightly Build 83622b0 - Mac 10.7.5.
Comments
The expected effect can be achieved by moving the beam. Double-click the beam, and drag the left-end handle below all four notes.
In reply to The expected effect can be… by ericw31415
Or select the beam and press ctrl-r if it's upside down from what you want, then select a note and press x. This will give you MuseScore's default beaming.
Relates to #285233: [EPIC] Cross-staff notation issues
Came up again in https://musescore.org/nl/node/289630
Workaround is to select the beam and enter edit mode, then drag the left and/or right handle to the desired position.
I would wager that the code currently only has a concept of stem direction for each "beam group". The solution would be to make that granularity finer so that each "beam group" on the same staff has its own stem direction. Let me see what I can find in the code.