Very long measures (e.g. 14/4) cause messed up layout if containing many notes

• Sep 7, 2012 - 14:42
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
won't fix
Project
MuseScore

Hi! That's a bug report that happens to me quite often, and I'm suggesting a fix.

1) Create a score, 4/4
2) Modify one bar and set a (long) 15/4 time signature
3) Fill it with many short notes (e.g. it's some sort of a free cadenza)
4) The measure becomes larger, eventually as wide as the page
5) After reaching a limit, when no more notes fit into one line, the layout gets messed up

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Current workaround: Spit the content in 2 bars (e.g. 8/4 and 7/4), fill them, and set the barline in between invisible
Problem: as you keep on typesetting, the division in two bars may become deficient (e.g. maybe now the division should have been 5/4 and 10/4)
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My suggested behaviour: when the content of the bar surpases 1 linespan, it is split in 2 AUTOMATICALLY.
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Example of what I'm talking about from the IMSLP (1st page, lines 2-3):

http://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/9/91/IMSLP139914-PMLP026…

Thanks!
G.

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• Sep 7, 2012 - 18:30

Hi

What MuseScore version and operating system are you using?

Can you check 2.0 nightly builds if you are using 1.2?

Thanks :).

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• Jan 12, 2015 - 09:56
Status (old) active ⇒ won't fix

Workaround is to use the split measure function to split the measure at a manually selected position. I dont want to implement an automatic to split the measure as there is no reliable algorithm to find a good split point so there must also be a way to override this automatic.

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