Transposition (MuseScore 3 beta) changes layout
Reported version
3.0
Type
Graphical (UI)
Frequency
Many
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Always
Status
duplicate
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
- Open the attached score in MuseScore 3 beta.
- Note how parts are laid out so that each new part starts at the beginning of a line (achieved by respectively increasing/decreasing Layout stretch).
- Transpose the score (key: E-) to A-.
- Layout changes: bars change their length, parts begin in different places.
| Attachment | Size |
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| Moped.mscz | 23.47 KB |
Comments
To some extent this is normal - you don't have any line breaks here, and changing from E minor to A minor means no key signature so there is potentially room for more measures on a line. However, because you have repeat measures with text on them, you are also seeing the effects of #285688: Width of repeat measures keeps increasing. Meaning that much will fix itself on save/reload (or even just wait two minutes for autosave to kick in). As far as I can see, everything you are seeing is an effect of one of those factors.
That said, there are number of issues with your score that are likely to cause all sorts of other trouble. In particular, your use of randomly different measure stretches is wreaking havoc with the layout. If the goal was just to control where lines break, better to just use actual line breaks. from the Breaks & Spacers palette.
Since you've already kind of got this going with stretch, I'd suggest fixing it by first running Tools / Add/Remove System Breaks to add breaks at the end of every existing system, then Format / Stretch / Reset Layout Stretch, then if need be select all and reduce stretch of everything consistently a notch or two. You'll get much more consistent results that way than by playing with stretch of individual measures. Although because of the repeat measure bug, you will want to remove those first, then re-add them (or just use fill with slashes, which is more standard anyhow).