Cross-staff is not working as expected in 3.0.5
Cross-staff feature is not working correctly in MS 3.0.5 when there are beams. The following shows an excerpt before applying Ctrl-Shift-Up to the higher notes of the left hand:
After applying cross staff, I get this:
As can be seen, the eighth notes have become quarter notes, or rather, the beam has disappeared. This happens both with normal notes and triplets. Selecting No beam in the Beam properties palette, the flag is present and the figure is shown as expected. Another evidence than there is something wrong is that selecting the note and applying X to change the direction of stems does not work.
This is a regression, it did work well in previous versions.
I couldn't find a workaround so far.
EDIT: I don' know if it is general, in this case where the only true cross-staff beam is correct, I wrote the other notes on the uper staff and hid the rests making them invisible.
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I think this was fixed for version 3.1 with this issue:
#280969: Cross staff 8ths lose beam if all notes moved to staff above
Update: The number 3 of the triplet also appears grossly out of place (in my case it went to some position falling on the next system, so I had to disable automatic position and change it manually).
In reply to Update: The number 3 of the… by fmiyara
@fmiyara
![Cross-staff triplets with beams MS 34.1 beta 2.png]( "Cross-staff triplets with beams MS 34.1 beta 2.png")
I tried this out in MS 3.1 beta 2, and you can see the default result below. The triplet on the second beat is split between the two staves, and I don't find the placement of the number 3 to be wrong by much (if at all). Is this the triplet you referred to, and were you using the latest beta of version 3.1?
This problem will never be fixed for MS 3.0.5, so you can only resolve the situation by upgrading to MS 3.1 when it is released.
In reply to @fmiyara I tried this out in… by DanielR
I know the problems are never corrected in the current version, I report them in the hope they be fixed in a future version. I tried briefly 3.1 beta but prefer to stick to a stable version for serious work because I prefer to avoid the risk of losing my work (especially when composing).
As to the position of the triplet, even if much better than with 3.0.5, it is NOT correct, it should be closer to the beam, as is in the other triplets. By the way, the distance should be more uniform, the first is a bit off or the last one too close.