Add Unicode accidentals to "Common Symbols" section of Special Characters
To help avoid the alignment problem reported at https://musescore.org/en/node/98866 and https://musescore.org/en/node/111656.
To help avoid the alignment problem reported at https://musescore.org/en/node/98866 and https://musescore.org/en/node/111656.
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See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2611
Fixed in branch master, commit f639f399b2
fix #111856: Add Unicode accidentals to "Common Symbols" section of Special Characters
Fixed in branch master, commit 49e71c3fd6
Merge pull request #2611 from Jojo-Schmitz/unicode-accidentals
fix #111856: Add Unicode accidentals to "Common Symbols" section of Special Characters
Fixed in branch 2.0.4, commit adc5724b8b
fix #111856: Add Unicode accidentals to "Common Symbols" section of Special Characters
This had been bugging me a while but not quite enough to bring up - thanks for addressing it!
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.
Seeing this marked as closed, I went to check it out. Special Characters currently looks like this:
The "bad" accidentals are still right at the beginning, and will probably still cause a lot of people problems. The "good" Unicode ones are buried in the middle, much less prominent. Could these be switched?
Jojo, is it possible to get the "good" accidentals to the beginning of the palette, where the "bad" ones currently are?
Well, what is good, what is bad?
The first batch of symbols listed there are Musical symbols, the 2nd batch are Unicode text, same order as the other Tabs of that Dialog. Swapping the batches would move the Musical symbols to the end.
Looking at your original PR, I see what you mean about the two batches of symbols. Is there any way you can get just the first three out of the second batch and put them before the first batch? Here's what I'm thinking:
"Good" and "bad" are "...for purposes of adding accidentals to text." See this image from https://musescore.org/en/node/111656:
The "bad" one on the left is the one that people are still going to use if it's first thing.
This would be possible of course, but messy in the source, we'd need a 3rd Batch of symbols for this
If that would be too messy, an alternative might be to move the "bad" accidentals to the end of their section—so they'd be right next to the "good" ones at the start of the Unicode section. Then at least people would notice that there were two sets, and maybe try both.
Well, logically they do group together with double flat and double sharp, and also with the various notes, which in turn go together with the rests.
I do agree. It's similarly logical that the Unicode accidentals belong there with them.
now we need to find a way to combine both logical orders...
From what I understood you to say, a third category for just those three symbols at the beginning would be the most logical—except it would look funny on the back end.
Using third category: https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2983
Fixed in branch master, commit f05296d4fd
Follow-up fix #111856: Put Unicode accidentals first
Fixed in branch master, commit c466a4eb23
Merge pull request #2983 from IsaacWeiss/111856-unicode-accidentals-special-characters
Follow-up fix #111856: Put Unicode accidentals first
Fixed in branch 2.1, commit d5e2863737
Follow-up fix #111856: Put Unicode accidentals first
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.