LH Guitar Fingering: irregular alignment
Reported version
3.2
Priority
P2 - Medium
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MS 3.2.3 (official)
Open the attached file. Contains two issues concerning the irregular vertical alignment of LH Guitar Fingering. One caused by an offset 2nd interval (measure 4), the other by fingering in different voices (measure 2).
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Comments
In both cases this is currently by design, but if someone can proposed an precisely describe an alternate algorithm to follow, we can certainly see about implementing it. The example in measure 2 is a matter of fingerings on one chord not paying attention to a chord in another voice. It would be technically possible to do this, but it would only exacerbate problems like that seen in measure 4. There is simply no foolproof way to align fingerings in chords in if seconds are involved. The algorithm we are using creates a zig-zag that more or less mimics that of the chord itself, and the consensus was that this was better than allowing the fingerings to overlap. Coming up with a scheme where we align them but shift things upwards/downwards in an effort to create space would be possible in some cases but likely a bit of work, and even so, isn't always what one would desire, so manual adjustment is still going to be likely in these cases.