Font style in MSCX gives meaningless diff

• Dec 7, 2018 - 11:43
Reported version
3.0
Priority
P2 - Medium
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
Yes
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

This MSCX code describes a text style that is Bold and Underlined:

      <staffFontStyle>5</staffFontStyle>

Compare this with the syntax for the alignment property:

      <staffAlign>center,baseline</staffAlign>

I don't need to tell you that this text is center aligned and sits on the baseline. Couldn't the font style syntax be equally clear?

Comments

• Dec 7, 2018 - 11:52

Guess we store the ORed enum class FontStyle members here, 0 for Normal, 1 for Bold, 2 for Italic, 4 for Underline, rather than plain text.

Changing that would mean a file format change, which in turn would require a compatibility read functionality?

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