Implement/add Johnston accidentals
It seems that the microtonal Johnston accidentals (SMuFL U+E2B0–U+E2BF) are not considered accidentals internally within src/engraving/libmscore/accidental.cpp, causing them to not appear in the accidentals palette and not be placed within the score properly:
Whereas all other accidentals in MuseScore are placed to the left of the note they belong to by default, the Johnston accidentals are instead placed on top of the note they belong to.
While this is likely an easy fix (hopefully just adding the missing accidentals to the list in accidental.cpp), if implemented in MuseScore 4 it would probably require some form of data fixing so that the Johnston accidentals in existing scores from MuseScore 3 that have been aligned manually don't suddenly shift out of alignment when updated to 4.
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Not a bug, they are just not implemented, but rather a feature request, AKA Suggestion.
As they don't exist in 3.x (not as accidental, just as SMuFL glyphs) there won't be any form of data fixing if and when they do get implemented
In reply to Not a bug, they are just not… by Jojo-Schmitz
Ah, thanks for the clarification.
Would this mean that any Johnston accidentals placed as SMuFL glyphs before such an implementation would stay SMuFL glyphs? I was under the impression they would just all be treated like the corresponding accidentals afterwards.
yes, they'd stay what they are.