Text being corrupted
I have written something in 7/16, and I used the following text to indicate the beat divisions:
But when I save the file and reopen, the text is corrupted: the spaces preceding a note symbol are removed. The original text (copied; so paste this into a string in MS to see what it looks like) is:
(metNote8thUpmetAugmentationDot + metNote8thUp + metNote8thUp / metNote8thUpmetAugmentationDot + metNoteQuarterUp )
Basically of course I just want to space these nicely - how can I do this, or is this a bug?
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Could you add the ".mscz" file? (or an isolated version containing only corrupted text:)
unfortunatly this site eats the <sym> and </sym> if not converted into html entities.
(<sym>metNote8thUp</sym><sym>metAugmentationDot</sym> + <sym>metNote8thUp</sym> + <sym>metNote8thUp</sym> / <sym>metNote8thUp</sym><sym>metAugmentationDot</sym> + <sym>metNoteQuarterUp</sym> )
Sorry, here's the (unfinished) score:file:///home/brian/music/Seven.mscz
Seven.mscz
In reply to Sorry, here's the … by Imaginatorium
Looks OK to me, I don't see missing spaces?
Try this version: I just did it with the unicode symbols inside Musescore itself.
(Text frame, Staff text, Technique)
In reply to Try this version: I just did… by Ziya Mete Demircan
Oh, I looked at your attachment.
and I really don't understand the problem.
(For the code: wrong understanding, I apologize, you just copied and pasted here)
It looks good.
In reply to Try this version: I just did… by Ziya Mete Demircan
I don't see a difference (except that your string is longer, more notes)
There was a known bug where spaces would be eaten after a character that had formatting like bold applied. This was fixed some time ago, though, and in any case does not seem to apply here since there is no extra formatting. As with others, I don't see a problem. The spaces here appear where they should. Are you using 2.1? The score you attached was created with 2.0.2 which is several versions old, probably from before the bug fix.
In reply to There was a known bug where… by Marc Sabatella
Ah! Yes, in 2.0.2 I can see the issue too.
So upgrade to 2.1 and all will be good ;-)
In reply to Ah!, Yes, in 2.0.2 I can see… by Jojo-Schmitz
Great, thanks! That resolves the issue. Leaving only metaissues...
How do I upgrade? I use the Linux Mint package manager, but the Ubuntu repository seems to be hopelessly out of date: see https://launchpad.net/~mscore-ubuntu/+archive/ubuntu/mscore-stable What is the simplest way to switch to the (really) latest version?
How should I really organise spacing? The spacing between an open bracket ( and a note does not match the spacing between a note and ). Someone mentioned Unicode (I ended up here: https://unicode-table.com/en/search/?q=space but the horror of it all repulsed me). How are the note symbols supposed to fit in a text line?
How do I manage to display angle-bracketed characters on this forum? I can't see any obvious "formatting help"?
In reply to Great, thanks! That resolves… by Imaginatorium
You could use the AppImage from our download page
There are musical symbols in UNICODE. But just use the ones you did use already.
From that table it may be possible to use the HTML ones or the entity ones like &em; (as wide as an 'm') or   (as wide as en 'n')
For angle brackets use > (Greater Than) and < (Less Than)
In reply to You could use the AppImage… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks. I'll ask again about the Appimage thing, which I couldn't get to work.
More generally: I cannot find any documentation on how to use the forums. I gather from above that HTML (so-called) "entities" work; does any other html formatting work, such as <i> for italics? How do I include an image, given a URL for it? There is a sort-of self-explanatory box for adding an image, but requires it to be in my file system. But in any event, there should be an explanation of what formatting works.
In reply to Thanks. I'll ask again about… by Imaginatorium
You can use "Markdown" for formatting, check the "Details" section, below the field where you enter a reply
In reply to You can use "Markdown" for… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks.
"Details" is essentially vacuous: it means "information", which is probably why I missed it. Could this not be changed to something informative like "Comment formatting"?
In reply to Thanks… by Imaginatorium
I agree, took me time to find it, even knowing it got to be there. Feel free to submit this to the issue tracker.