In lute tablature the dots don't appear on dotted half-notes in print-outs

• Dec 10, 2018 - 19:14
Reported version
3.0
Priority
P1 - High
Type
Graphical (UI)
Frequency
Few
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
MuseScore

In 6-string French Lute tablature, with notes set to "stems and beams" and half-note shown with slashed stems, the dots are missing from dotted half-notes in both print-outs and PDF files, although they do appear on the screen.

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• Dec 10, 2018 - 19:40

Indeed, you are right. Issue in 3.0 too, of course.
Workaround: choose "short stem" for the half note, instead of "slashed stem."

So, comparison in images in a score vs. pdf, and then with short stem (pdf)

score.jpg
pdf.jpg

short.jpg

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• Aug 27, 2019 - 19:46

Well, I have a “fix” for this, but it does not address the root cause of the problem, which I have yet to determine.

We use FreeType for rendering scores on the screen, and we use QFont for printing. Why this is, I don’t know. Nor do I know why QFont does not seem to be able to print augmentation dots properly in this case, when in all other cases it seems to have no problem. But we can force MuseScore to use FreeType when printing augmentation dots beside slashed half note stems, as shown here.

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