"Stems through" tablature property disabled
In Advanced Staff Properties with "Shown as: Stems and Beams" selected I believe MuseScore should enable the "Through staff" stem option. However here on MacOS with MuseScore 3.6.2 it remains disabled.
The User Guide states
Stem style:
Beside staff: Stems are drawn as fixed height lines above/below the staff.
Through staff: Stems run through the staff to reach the fret marks.
Note: This option is only available when "Shown as: Stems and Beams" is selected (see above).
New score>Solo> Guitar + Tablature
Add some notes
Right click the tab staff
Click into Advanced Style Properties>Note Values
Stems and Beams is selected by default
And to my surprise Stem Style>"Through staff" is disabled.
Is there some additional setting that needs to be set to enable "Through staff"
scorster
Comments
Yes, it seems it's incompatible with the option to draw short stems for half notes.
"New score>Solo> Guitar + Tablature"
Sure ? It seems you made a new confusion. The template "Guitar + Tablature" is shown as the "Simple" staff type. You can check this in the Instruments dialog ("I")
So: 1) Stems and Beams are not selected by default (default is "None") and 2) so "Through staff" is disabled.
Please retry by recharging this template via the Wizard.
In reply to "New score>Solo> Guitar +… by cadiz1
cadiz1 wrote >> The template "Guitar + Tablature" is shown as the "Simple" staff type.
You're correct cadiz1
Done know how I incorrectly reported that.
scorster
Marc wrote >> it seems it's incompatible with the option to draw short stems for half notes.
Correct. Good eye!
There are lots of properties dependencies that disable various options. Sorry I failed to report that I had Half Note>"Short stems" selected, which disables "Through Staff." I relied too heavily on single warning in the User Guide that.
Perhaps mysteriously disabled UI elements could show a tooltip when hovered.
In this case it could read:
"This option is disable if you've selected: Half notes: "As short stem"
When Stem Style Through staff is selected, when hovering Half notes: "As short stem" MuseScore would show a tooltip:
"This option is disable if you've selected: Stem Style: "Through Staff".
Addtionally the statement is "This option is only available when "Shown as: Stems and Beams" is selected."
a) is incorrect: "Through staff" is enabled when I select "Note symbols"
— or —
b) MuseScore fails to disable "Through staff" when the user selects "Note symbols"
scorster
In reply to Marc wrote >> it seems it's… by scorster
Feel free to edit the Handbook in any way you feel would make things more clear. In hindsight, it's obvious that the short stem option doesn't make much sense with stems drawn through the staff, but perhaps there is a better way of designing the interface to make this clearer.
In reply to Feel free to edit the… by Marc Sabatella
in my opinion the best solution would be a "real full tablature" writing half notes with a circle round the numbers with stems and the whole notes with circles without stems( there are some printed guitar books with that). I like the idea of having the tabs as close to standard notation as possible for those who only play from tabs ( and if its only for not to use too much paper or to have to change pages too often).