Verbose accidental mode

• Oct 3, 2011 - 11:01
Type
Functional
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore

Please feel free to move this feature request to a more appropriate subproject.

Is there a way to create a "verbose accidental" mode in which MuseScore automatically adds accidentals to notes in a measure if it got a different accidental in a previous measure?

For example, in C major, F# in measure 1 has an accidental sharp (♯), where measure 2 with F should 'automatically' add a natural (♮) sign in front of F in this mode. Technically this is not needed since we're in C major (no accidentals), but I've seen tons of scores with this 'verbose accidental' mode.

I leave it open to put these verbose accidentals between brackets in the score or not.

Any thoughts?

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• Oct 3, 2011 - 15:38

That is indeed the usual name. MuseScore can't create them automatically, but you can place them manually using the accidentals palette. I do this often enough that I've assigned keyboard shortcuts. I tried to write a plugin once to add these automatically but couldn't get it to work. Would be a nice feature, although I'd prefer to see a command that added them after the fact as opposed to having them added automatically as you go.

And BTW, the more appropriate place for discussions - like if you aren't sure if a feature exists, or want to kind of brainstorm how it could work - would be the forums,not the issue tracker.

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