Cross-staff beams - second beam detached to the left

• Aug 25, 2013 - 12:56

When creating a cross staff beam group of notes, I have discovered that the second beam of semi-quavers are offset to the left.
Best thing to do is demonstrate it-
1. Enter the notes into the lower staff
cross-staff-beam-1.jpg

2. Flip the required notes up into the upper staff. Here's the result
cross-staff-beam-2.jpg

3. Ok, lets try the other way round - enter the notes in the upper staff
cross-staff-beam-3.jpg

4. Flip the notes down into the lower staff
cross-staff-beam-4.jpg

Now, I do not claim to be a notation expert - far from it - but this seems to be a bug.
I tried to edit the beam - moving it up or down a bit, changing the angle - to see if it would "snap" the beams into position, to no avail.

Is there a workaround ?


Comments

I don't know if there is a workaround for 1.X, but I would not that this seems fixed in the development builds for 2.0. Except I think there is a different problem there. I'm not really a notation expert, so I'll let someone else try and file an issue if appropriate.

Depending on your level of desperation and, so long as the score is not an exercise in cross staff beaming with many instances, you might consider the attachment(s).
It uses a color swatch (.jpg image file) to hide the errant part of the beam. There are two - one (not visible) is at the first group of notes and is the same color as the Musescore sheet color. The second, (more visible) is at the second group of notes and is white - used if the tinted one shows on white paper when printing the score. You can click on either in the score to move each around.

Attachment Size
Workaround.mscz 1.73 KB
swatch.JPG 644 bytes

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