Horizontal alignment of whole note, 32th note etc... is different than the quarter one in text

• Mar 13, 2013 - 12:42
Reported version
2.1
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore
Tags
simpletext
tempotext

MuseScore 46a4b3db2c

  1. Create a score and drag a tempo text from the text palette
  2. Double click the tempo text, press F2 to display the special characters dialog
  3. Add a whole note, 32nd or smaller in the tempo text next to the quarter note

Expected result : whole note should be aligned with the quarter note notehead
Actual result

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Attachment Size
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Comments

• Mar 14, 2013 - 01:07

This is clearly a font issue: the glyphs added when extending FreeSerif into FreeSerifMscore are not properly placed. There are different opinions, but I assume that the 'proper' placement is to centre the note symbols between (or across) the ascender-descender height (possibly without exceeding the top Y of diacritics over capitals).

HOWEVER, if there is little reason to place so low the semibrevis and brevis, 64th and 128th notes clearly do not fit the height of the font, if placed correctly (possibly also the 32th), possibly they do not fit the font height anyway.

Exceeding the font height might have side effects: on some rasterizers, glyphs may be clipped and/or text lines may get inconsistently spaced.

So, I'm afraid this can be improved, but perhaps not fixed completely, unless 64th and 128th glyphs are visibly compressed vertically.

M.

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