Feature Request: Expand "Append measures" to insert measures after selected measure(s)
Reported version
3.0
Priority
P2 - Medium
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
duplicate
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
Original Post: https://musescore.org/en/comment/914893#comment-914893
Please consider adding the ability to insert measures after a selected measure. As suggested in the above post, the default of "append measures" and "append one measure", when there is no selected measure would be the same as it is now, new measures are added to the end of the score. However, when a measure is selected, either append command would insert the new measure(s) after that measure. If more than one measure is selected, the append command would insert after the last measure of the selection. This would be ideal, for example, for inserting new measures before a time signature change. See post for more discussion.
Comments
I think it's a good idea, I'd get used to the change quickly enough I suspect. And do the same for horizontal frames. And in both cases, if the measure we are appending after has a layout break, the newly appended measure perhaps should "steal" it, so it ends up on the same system. At least when appending a single measure / frame.
I agree about stealing layout breaks.
See also #290995: Revise append/insert measures UX in the measure context menu
Came up again in https://musescore.org/en/node/295533
And, for symmetry, the same should be done for Insert, insert before selected measure if one is selected, insert at beginning of score if not.
See #244381: Add options for "Append to current measure" and "Insert at beginning of score", for measures and frames