Create a new type of text
MuseScore has 2 types of texts that affect either an instrument (scope text) or all instruments (system text).
Would it be possible to have a 3rd type of text (group text) that affects the instruments assembled by a system hook? In order to make the musical conductor clearer, this would make it unnecessary to use a system text for each instrument in the group when creating separate parts, this group text then propagating to each instrument ?
( Request made on French forum )
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If MuseScore added such a thing, it would be a terrible idea to use it. It would appear in the conductor's score to be only in one part. If a certain group of instruments all need the same text, add it to each instrument.
How could it be so terrible? I find it much more terrible to write a text several times when one can only write it once.
But perhaps you have not understood that it is not the same text for several groups of instruments but of the same text for a group of instruments combined by a system hook. Each system hook can have a different text (by providing indexing).The text would be attached to a hook, not to the group and found on each instrument of a given group during a part extraction. Place one text for each instrument of the same group seems anti-Cartesian.
Maybe I'm not understanding. Do you not mean something that would look like this:
This idea would be more useful for directions given to a section of instruments such as in a big band telling trumpets to play into the music stand, or telling all the strings to play sul ponticello (on the bridge) in an orchestra.
Thanks Mike320
This is exactly what is requested on the French forum.
So it is like the example I put in comment #3 above?
Rather this :
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Yes, exactly—and the "hook text" looks like staff text. That's the problem. There's no way for the conductor to tell the difference. That's why standard practice is to mark it on each staff that needs it.
The utility being only to automatically transfer a text on the parts of a group, it is not really necessary that this text distinguishes it particularly from other texts. Whoever writes the score knows what he is doing. And I do not see how this feature would bother you.
When it comes to standard usage remember that the request is initially made on the French forum and the practices are not quite the same.