Weird font bug
I've been having this problem for at least a year now where when I enter out of a chord symbol text edit box and I have special symbols like sharps or flats, they become another font. And its always the same font on the flats and sharps. When I am in the edit box where I can edit the text it shows up as the right symbol but it changes once I exit out of it.
I have included pictures that show this problem. I have tried different fonts for chord symbols and they all result in the same problem.
Comments
Don't add a flat or sharp yourself (no that superscipt 9), use b and # (in this case just "abadd9") and let MuseScore do the parsing and replacing for those chord symbols. Now with chord symbols playback this becomes even more important
In reply to Don't add a flat or sharp… by Jojo-Schmitz
I don't actually add sharps or flats myself I do use b and # its just the way it shows up and I'm sorta confused because it didnt use to do that when I was back on musescore 2.
Do you have any Idea what might solve that?
In reply to I don't actually add sharps… by Oliver Britts
If you'd do, the text wouldn't look that way in edit mode.
Also just use the default font, FreeSerif, many other fonts do indeed have an issue with the flat sign
FreeSans and MuseJazz Text, Bravura Text and MScore Text work to, as does Segue UI
But please share the score
In reply to If you'd do, the text wouldn… by Jojo-Schmitz
So this is the score (although I could share any score I've worked on with a different font than the standard).
I've been using the style that I attached too called "Kompskiss.mss" and another example of this weird phenomenon.
In reply to So this is the score … by Oliver Britts
Use a font that looks right, see above. You're apparently using "Reprise Chords Std", which I don't have, so ut gets replaced with "MS Shell Dlg 2", which looks equally bad.
I guess MuseJazz is closest to what you want it to look. No need to change the font, better change Format > Style > Chord symbols to Jazz
In reply to Use a font that looks right,… by Jojo-Schmitz
I switched to MuseJazz and it looks "correct" now, only problem is that I don't really fancy that font but I guess it will have to do.
Is it a compatibility issue with musescore then?
In reply to I switched to MuseJazz and… by Oliver Britts
There's a problem with the flat sign in many many fonts. MuseScore is just the poor victim
In reply to There's a problem with the… by Jojo-Schmitz
I see, I don't get why it would show up correctly in the text edit box though and then look weird on the "paper"...
In reply to I see, I don't get why it… by Oliver Britts
Seems your "Reprise Chords Std" font has a regular 'b' that looks like a decent flat, but MuseScore's chord symbols parser replaces hat with the 'real' (unicode) flat, and that has this space issue
In reply to Seems your font has a… by Jojo-Schmitz
So probably the fix would be to edit the font and copy the "b" to the flat code point, so the same symbol gets used for both. As it is, I am guessing the font simply doesn't have an actual flat sign, just a letter b that was designed to look like a flat. That won't work indeed, MuseScore will substitute the flat sign from some other default font that won't be compatible.
Or just skip that font and use FreeSans, which is kind of similar and has the correct flat sign.