Chord symbols overlap barlines

• Dec 2, 2018 - 09:10
Reported version
3.0
Priority
P2 - Medium
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
MuseScore

See attached score. The Gmaj7 chord symbol overlaps the bar line in bar 8.

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Comments

• Dec 2, 2018 - 16:53

I'm not so sure this is a bug, exactly - the collision avoidance algorithm doesn't necessarily try to force text not to cross barlines, and it's arguable as to whether it should.

I think what you are really noticing is that chord symbols used to be left-aligned by default but now they are centered (except in the jazz templates, which I customized just before beta). If you change back to left-align in your chord symbol style, this looks more like you'd probably be expecting.

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• Dec 3, 2018 - 19:06

This is a side effect of the change I just made yesterday, where center-aligned chords were allocating the entire space to the right of the note not to the left. So assuming we like this, then good. To me, it's not necessarily such a good thing, more obviously so if the chord symbol is above the top staff if the piano part so there is no barline to physically overlap. But also about to become a non-issue once I change default to left-aligned.

I am pretty sure the end result will be the best we can do right now. We still need to address some other spacing issues, especially between non-adjacent notes and between one measure and the next.

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