Why does the Tempo palette have all the symbols twice?

• Jun 29, 2018 - 19:32

In the Tempo palette, why does each symbol (minim, crotchet, quaver) appear twice? In each case I've found that using the first gives different results from the second - e.g. using the first crotchet and setting it to 120 gives around the same tempo as using the second and setting it to 80.
Tempo palette.jpg


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In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

Thanks Jojo-Schmitz. I had wondered if that might be the case, but I couldn't see the dots in the palette, even when I used a photo-editor to massively magnify it. However, I've just tried massively increasing the score size using Page Settings, and I can see the dots in the score now. Completely invisible at any normal font size though.
Anyway, mystery solved, so thank you.

In reply to by Alan Fryer

Could be a font problem on your computer. Do you perchance have Bravura installed? Or Emmentaler? MScore? None of these fonts should be installed - MuseScore needs to be able to use its own internal versions.

I guess it's also possible your palette got corrupted somehow. Were you ever experimenting with customizing it? Were you ever using an experimental nightly build?

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

Thanks Marc. No, I haven't got any of those fonts, and I've never tried to customise it - I'm a fairly new user, still learning the basics really. Until just now I had only installed MuseScore once, which was 2.1.0, but just a few minutes ago I've installed the latest, 2.3.0. It's still made no difference to the visibility of the dots in the tempi. I've got two screens, the laptop's built-in one and a big external one, and I'm not seeing the dots on either. BTW, I'm still on Windows 7 (afraid other s/w would stop working if I upgrade). I wonder if that might make a difference.

In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

Yes I use both screens at the same time. The external one isn't a TV, it's a "Samsung C32F391 32-inch Curved LED Monitor". Often I drag the MuseScore window from one screen to the other, depending on what other windows are open. I can live with the problem for now - I haven't got any songs needing dotted tempo markings, so it's not really a problem, now that my original question is answered and I know that's what the second set in the palette are. Thanks for your help.

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

When I get time I'll install MuseScore on other computers we've got in the house, with later versions of Windows, and see if that helps. I don't need a solution urgently though - now that I know what the second set of symbols in the palette are I can just ignore them for now, till I get time to experiment. Thanks for your help.

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