Horizontal Fretboard Diagram for Guitar

• Jan 10, 2023 - 17:37
Reported version
4.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
Yes
Workaround
No
Project

In MuseScore 3, it was possible to orient guitar fretboard diagrams to lay in the horizontal orientation (rotated 90º ccw from the default). I no longer see the option on the properties palette for fretboard diagrams in MuseScore 4. Also, part of the fretboard visual in the properties palette disappears behind the options for more than 6 frets in MuseScore 3. Automatically repositioning of the visual to be unobscured would be helpful. MuseScore 4 does not seem to allow more than 6 frets. This is an issue for creating diagrams in which, say a particular scale, requires more than 6 frets to show completely on one diagram. It would be good to add back n the horizontal orientation and more than 6 frets (perhaps up to 15) in the options in MuseScore 4.

See the Musescore v3 contrasted to the v4 images in this Issue report. I have only used a 5-fret board diagram; in this case, the entire board can be seen. Once you add more than


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