Issue involving text and system distance

• Jan 17, 2019 - 16:45
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Always
Status
by design
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project

OS: Windows 10 (10.0), Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 3.0.1.5088, revision: a504e39

  1. Open the attached score. Increase the font-size of the object titled "Staff text" (measure 6) from 10 to 11pt.
    Result: Unexpected increase in System distance.
  2. Press "Set as style" for the same property.
  3. Set font-size back to 10pt
    Result: System distance unexpectedly stays the same.
  4. Press "Set as style"
    Result: System distance gets unexpectedly smaller.
  5. Increase font-size steadily.
    Result: System distance increases suddenly at 11pts, but doesn't change again until 38pts is reached.
Attachment Size
text_issue.mscz 29.75 KB

Comments

Status active by design

This is not a bug. The reason the system increased so much is simply that the last system was right on the edge of not fitting on the page and all it took was that slight increase in text size to push it over the edge. This sort of thing happens all the time and is to be expected - some changes increase spacing and a system won't fit anymore to it moves to the next page and then the rest of the systems respace.

It is also perfectly normal that the last system doesn't move back to the first page until you undo both the change of the font size of that one element and the set as style, since the set as style also made other text elements bigger and also cause the last system to no longer fit.