Sub-beam pointing in the wrong direction

• Jul 23, 2013 - 20:28
Type
Functional
Severity
3
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore
Tags
2.X

1. Open attached file.

Result: The sub-beam of the second-last note is pointing in the wrong direction.

NOT FOUND: [Guitar Pro Sub-beam pointing in the wrong direction.png]

Note: The file was taken from a complete score and edited in TuxGuitar 1.2.

Using MuseScore 2.0 Nightly Build (881781c) - Mac 10.7.5.

Attachment Size
[Guitar Pro] Sub-beam pointing in the wrong direction.gp5 1.66 KB
[Guitar Pro] Sub-beam pointing in the wrong direction.png 59.88 KB

Comments

• Dec 16, 2013 - 16:49

Beaming is indeed pretty whacked :-). Not that MuseScore is doing bad things, exactly - the actual rhythm just doesn't make much sense. I guess it's doing the best it can.

Anyhow, I can reproduce this from scratch in 2.0 if I follow the same crazy sequence as shown, but "normal" combinations don't exhibit problems that I've seen. In particular, that last group of three notes (which by my counts adds up to 1/64th short of a beat) works fine when entered starting on the beat (with a sixty-fourth leftover, filled with either a note or rest) or if entered starting after a sixty-fourth note or rest).

I'd be inclined to lower this to minor unless a more "legitimate" example can be found.

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• Dec 16, 2013 - 17:01
Severity ⇒

Yes, I think it is incorrectly presented (inspiration was based on the GP file, which I didn't make), but the sub-beam direction should be fixed though.

I'm happy to lower the priority.

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• Dec 17, 2013 - 09:53
Severity ⇒
Status (old) active ⇒ needs info

I'm not sure the sub-beam is pointing in the "wrong" direction. I agree that it looks strange, but the whole IS strange. Should the sub-beam point to the right, it could easily mislead the reader to think that the penultimate and the last note (the dotted 1/32nd and the 1/16th) form a rhythmical unit, which they do not. They would, if the last note was dotted and the penultimate note wasn't, but this is not the case.

So, in this case, either direction would look "wrong".

I tend to agree with Marc that a more "legitimate" example is needed before even agreeing that there is a bug...

Thanks,

M.

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