Small in Inspector
1. Open attached score (produced in 1.2).
2. 'Inspector'.
3. Click on top note.
4. Tick 'Small' in the 'Chord' section.
5. Tick 'Small' in the 'Note' section.
Result: The note head becomes smaller - it becomes detached from the stem too, but this is perhaps separate (#19129: Small note in chord is detached from stem).
Discussion: I'm not sure if the note head should become smaller than it is. If 'Small' in 'Chord' is ticked, should 'Small' in 'Note' be ticked as well, and possibly greyed out? If you untick 'Small' in 'Note', what should happen of 'Small' in 'Chord'?
Using MuseScore 2.0 Nightly Build (e04dc04) - Mac 10.7.5.
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Comments
This is how I see the current situation:
0) 'foreword': in MuseScore, 'Note' is a actually a note head; the whole element comprising note head(s), stem, hook or beam (if present), etc, is a 'Chord'. What might be seen as a single note is actually a Chord with just one note head.
1) 'Note' can be made small; this makes small, relatively to the Chord size, the single head alone, the other sub-elements of the Chord (other note heads, stem, hook, ...), if present, retain their size.
2) 'Chord' can be made small: the whole element becomes small, as all its sub-elements are reduced in scale.
3) If in a 'Chord' marked small, a 'Note' is also marked small, this note heads becomes small relatively to the Chord size which is small, so this note head becomes, so to speak, small^2.
The whole matter seems to me rational enough. I don't know if there is a usage for this small^2 note heads and I will not argue with anyone but I have the feeling that we are possibly making problems where there is none: ultimately, if you don't need it, don't use it!
Too simplistic?
M.