Add system breaks: allow option in dialog to keep existing section breaks

• Jan 28, 2021 - 12:58
Reported version
3.6
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project

OS: Windows 10 (10.0), Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 3.6.1.515740707, revision: d0fc8e9

If you use the "Add system break at end of each system" command (Add / remove system breaks" dialog) it replaces all section breaks within the range as well. There should be an option to allow the user to keep existing section breaks (and page breaks?). (see also, https://musescore.org/en/node/316068)

Also, it is not possible to select breaks on the basis of type—i.e. system, page or section—from the selection dialog. Could this be made possible?


Comments

I agree that Add/Remove system breaks command could stand to be a bit smarter in terms of how it handles page breaks and section breaks, and I don't think we need to add extra options in order to improve it. Currently, page breaks are left alone, as they ought to be. Likewise, section breaks should also be left alone. But both page breaks and section breaks should reset the count when adding system breaks every interval. The logic would look like this: https://github.com/mattmcclinch/MuseScore/commit/9893cb7.

As for being able to select breaks on the basis of type from the selection dialog, https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/7407 would make this possible.