I realized why the flute will not play up to its full value. In the instruments.xml file, its gateTime is set to 95, not 100. Even if I change it to 100 with an .xml editor program, MuseScore will not respond to the changes. Is there any way I (we) can change its gateTime to 100?
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nothing critical about this. You can change that instrumwents.xml file, but need to load it too in https://musescore.org/en/handbook/preferences#score
Possible alternative: apply a tenuto to the notes, should result in gateTime 100
Thank you for helping! I actually did know that applying slurs and tenutos should give notes gateTimes of 100; it's just that it's too much work. (I may have overreacted when I marked this as CRITICAL).
As the gateTime=95 is set explicitly for flute, I'd rather rate this issue as 'by design'
It is indeed by design. It's normal that unslurred passages will be less smooth than slurred ones and this is currently the only way we have if doing this. Real music does use slur marks, so it's proper that you should use them if you wish whomever plays your music (whether human or computer) to slur.