Changing time signature makes all linebreaks disappear
See attached score: drag and drop 4/4 instead of 2/2 and all linebreaks are deleted
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Indeed and by design. Might not be needed for this particular time sig change, but in general it would
In reply to Indeed and by design. Might by Jojo-Schmitz
By design it removes things carefully added to the score?? Strange design!
In reply to By design it removes things by frfancha
Think about it - in a change from 4/4 to 3/4, those line break don't make sense any more. That is, they now apply to time positions that aren't even the ends of measures any more. I doubt you'd want line break in the middle of measures And realistically, your reasons to have added those line breaks most likely won't apply any more either (eg, if you are trying for four measures per line, after a change from 4/4 to 3/4, you'll want the line break after what was formerly the *third* measure, since that is now the *fourth* measure).
It does just so happen that in a change from 4/4 to 2/2, the measures *do* end up being the same, so we could special case situations like this and preserve existing line break. This is a requested enhancement that we may well implement some day - see #51176: Change the time signature remove the score elements.
In reply to Think about it - in a change by Marc Sabatella
<< in a change from 4/4 to 2/2, the measures *do* end up being the same, so we could special case situations like this and preserve existing line break >>
In folk music you have several pieces which are played in 3/4 then in 6/8 and such time signature should be ok as well.
So the math is "simple" (it's easier to say than to program I know), when changing from a/b to c/d and axd = bxc please preserve existing score elements.
In reply to << in a change from 4/4 to by frfancha
Maybe relatively easy between a/n and b/n.
But not between a/n and b/m.
example:
What if someone wants 4/4 to 9/8 (or 6/8) ? (Yes, users ask [want] everything :D )
what will happen;
1. The software does nominator, denominator calculations.
2. It gives the error message: "These two are not suitable for translation".
A programmer does not want to open a query (or error, or warning message) window in front of the user (as far as possible).
In reply to Maybe relatively easy between by Ziya Mete Demircan
Nobody has said that it is "easy" in all cases. What we aks is just that in the "easy" cases (axd=bxc, essentially the mesures have the same" length) it is done.
In reply to Nobody has said that it is by frfancha
Agreed, that would be a sensible change to make for the cases where it happens to make sense.
In reply to Maybe relatively easy between by Ziya Mete Demircan
what frfrancha suggests is that if the location of the barlines does not change then the formatting should not be deleted. In your examples, Ziya, the locations of the barlines will change.