Crescendo (and decrescendo) for 1 note does not have the correct length.
When a crescendo (or a decrescendo) is placed for 1 note, it places itself to occupy the whole measure. It is not the correct length, i.e., just the duration of 1 note. This wrong behaviour does not happen when it is placed to more than, i.e., 2 note or more). In the latter case, the length is correctly the duration of those notes.
In the example below, at least, if the decrescendo is placed first for the 2nd and the 3rd notes and the crescendo is placed the second, you would expect the crescendo would stop just before the 2nd note. It, however, does not happen. The crescendo still places itself for the entire length of the whole measure.
The length can be adjusted manually, but it is annoying.
OS: macOS High Sierra (10.13), Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 3.6.0.487915347, revision: 1977cb3
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Comments
Hey if I remember correctly, if you enter into note entry mode first, hairpins via shortcuts < > will only apply for the duration of the current segment duration. This might be a useful workaround for your use case as relates to your crescendo.
It's not really clear what you are saying, but if you don't elect the full range of notes you want to apply the hairpin (or other line) to before clicking it in the palette, MuseScore has no way of knowing how long you want it to be, so it has to guess. Like all guesses, sometimes it happens to be right, other times it happens to be wrong. But it should always work correctly when you select the range first. So if you are seeing a case where MsueScore is actually adding it incorrectly, please attach your actual score - not just a picture - and give precise steps to reproduce the problem.