Tabs - hiding subsequent notes tabs when in a tie.
I use tabs a lot and with MuseScore 3 I was able to only have the first note shown in tab with others hidden.
In MuseScore 4 the subsequent notes are shown with brackets round them How can I remove this?
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There is an option in staff/part properties / advanced style properties, to control the appearance of tied notes. However, even with them disabled, they still show at the beginning of a measure like this. There seems to be some debate about whether this is desirable or not, but it does seem likely an option may be provided to control this too. See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/12530
In reply to There is an option in staff… by Marc Sabatella
I have two pieces of music both created with MS4, both with Identical staff/part properties / advanced style properties, see attached . I cannot find any reason for this inconsistency . There must be something that has changed between MS3 and MS4 that is causing this, as it never happened in MS3.
In reply to I have two pieces of music… by mradson68@gmail.com
Did you read the discussion in the issue I linked to above. It explains what is going on - the current system uses the logic that a tied-to note at the beginning of a measure is important to show, since otherwise it can be misleading to see the next note in the measure and not be able to understand whether it starts at the beginning of the measure or not. Apparently some editions use that convention and that is why the change was made. But as the discussion shows, other editions do not show that, and hence the request to allow the tied note to not display at all, which is on the "to do" list.
In reply to Did you read the discussion… by Marc Sabatella
Yes I read it but again as clear as mud.
Quite simply too many changes between MS3 and MS4 for no good reason. There are a lot of good new features in MS4 that I really like, eg quickly switching on and off instrument tabs, but does not outweighs the two big issues of multiple tabs and this one.
Sadly for now I have dumped MS4 until these problems are ironed out, If they ever are, and will continue with MS3.
In reply to Yes I read it but again as… by mradson68@gmail.com
Actually, the changes are all for very good reasons. Some of them might happen to be reasons you don't agree with, but it's a mistake to assume there was not careful thought and much discussion of tradeoffs leading to decisions.
Anyhow., it is of course your right to trade the much better playback, much better engraving, and overall simpler UI of MU4 in order to retain use of tabs and invisible tied notes. I suspect, though, that if you had first become accustomed to those advantages in MU4 and then someone told you that you'd could have multiple tabs and invisible tied notes but would need to give up everything else, you'd laugh and not actually consider it for an instant :-)