Sharp and flat in Chord symbols

• Dec 28, 2022 - 16:11
Reported version
4.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Many
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Always
Status
GitHub issue
Regression
Yes
Workaround
Yes
Project
MuseScore

Create chord symbol (Ctrl+K default shortcut) with sharp (#), so it is changed to a code (266f).

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312 - Que ma bouche chante ta louange.mscz 35.18 KB

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• Dec 28, 2022 - 16:19

UPDATE: In Format/Style/Chord Symbols/Appearance, the chord symbol Style was "Custom," using the file "
stdchords.xml
"
When I changed the chord symbol Style to "Standard," this fixed the problem.

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• Jan 26, 2023 - 20:46
Status active ⇒ needs info

Can someone provide precise steps to reproduce this problem? I tried the following (using 4.0.1 AppImage on Linux):

  1. load the score attached to the original post
  2. click first note of the first measure in the top staff
  3. press Ctrl+K
  4. Type "F#" (that's the standard number sign, not a special Unicode sharp sign)
  5. Press Space
  6. Type "Bb" (capital and lower case "b" - again, no special Unicode)
  7. Esc

Result: exactly what I expect, the # turned into a sharp sign and the "b" into a flat

I also tried saving & reloading as one of the linked threads suggested that might be involved somehow. But I couldn't get it to fail:

Screenshot 2023-01-26 1.40.39 PM.png

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• Feb 14, 2023 - 16:45
Status needs info ⇒ GitHub issue

I can now confirm the issue. In order to reproduce, you also need to change to a custom XML file - the one specific in the original file was actually just one of the old obsolete ones, but wasn't custom.

I have gone ahead and opened a GitHub issue for this as I think I understand a little more about what is happening now. See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/16363

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