Useful place for bracket?
I think it would be useful to add the brackets for courtesy accidentals to the accidental just above the workspace.
This would allow one to select the note, add the accidental and then add the brackets without having to open the palette and drag the bracket there.
The cursor would remain on the note and the program would not add the bracket unless there was an accidental there.
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Hi, or, but it's just an idea to have the accidental with brackets (working)
In reply to Hi, or, but it's just an idea by Shoichi
That would work. The only thing is that it then requires opening the palette, and I find that sometimes I have a few palettes open and then I have to start moving up and down among them.
It seems to me that, in general, the items in the palettes are larger than they need to be. Reducing their size could also be useful.
I'm going to put this in a separate topic. Thanks for the idea.
First, you never need to drag anything in the palette - double click is more efficient. So for the cases where brackets are appropriate in courtesy accidentals, you can add the accidental, click it, then double click the bracket. If you aren't using the palette in the first place to add the accidental, you can also just use a shortcut to add the bracket - see Edit / Preferences / Shortcuts to define one.
In reply to First, you never need to drag by Marc Sabatella
I have a dilemma with this entire idea. I wish the brackets for the accidentals would automatically go around the accidental attached to the note without changing what is selected. The cursor would then revert to its previous location so you can either enter a new note or add to the chord.
This would prevent the user from making this part of the go back and fix it part of editing
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pause, click, add bracket, click continue with note entry.
Of course there is no difference between the brackets in the note heads and accidentals palettes, so this isn't possible. I see nothing wrong with the brackets being on accidentals in the tool bar, but I don't see it as necessary.
In reply to I have a dilemma with this by mike320
It was, I think, a deliberate choice to make the command / palette work the same whether a note or accidental is selected, but in hindsight this may have been a mistake. If there were separate commands / palette items for "add bracket to note" and "add bracket to accidental" this wouldn't be a problem.
In reply to It was, I think, a deliberate by Marc Sabatella
Part of the dilemma has to do with how MS would handle this. There have been requests to be able to put accents and ornaments into brackets (which I support) so this would require yet another set of brackets...Unless there were a universal bracket you could put around anything.