Precise Control Over Layout/Placement

Thanks for sharing your feature requests :).

I think you can use the keyboard for more precise adjustments?

Once this is implemented, you may find yourself not needing to adjust as much.

At least for voltas, this is already possible:

1) Select a volta
2) You get 3 handles: the middle handle control the global group position in the page, the left handle controls the line initial point and the right handle the line ending position
3) select each handle and set the desired coordinates in the edit boxes at the bottom of the MuseScore window

The coordinates of the middle handle are in page coordinates and perhaps are of limited usefulness (you may file a bug request / feature request for it), but the initial and final handles are relative to the measure initial and final points and allow very precise placement.

I am sure some of the other elements you quote in your post already work this way; if you could spend some time in reviewing the current status of them and post the relevant bug reports, you would be VERY welcome!!

Thanks,

M.

You might want to try the nightly builds before writing up too many more of these, as they may change your impressions somewhat. Voltas, for examples, *are* placed automatically now, with a style parameter to control the default placement. Even in 1.x, dynamics are always placed consistenly; it's just that the text style that supposedly controls their default location was ignored prior to 2.0 - but this too now works in 2.0. Slurs always have been placed automatically, although while they are not always shaped optimally by default, I believe 2.0 is improved in this regard too.

There's definitely still room for improvement here, but I think you'll be pleased with the progress already made for 2.0 in this area!