"Fix Measure Width" causes notes to line up incorrectly on the first stave

• May 15, 2010 - 03:48
Reported version
2.1
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore

When using EditGeneralStyle>System>FixMeasureWidth, the notes on the first stave (with the instrument text) get jumbled.

Steps:
1) New score, 4/4, one staff
2) Enter notes c, d, e, ... a, b, c (8 notes)
3) EditGeneralStyle>System>FixMeasureWidth ON

Result:
The staff changes length (also it is too long for the page, i.e. staff #1 is longer than all the others), and the first measure has 5 notes. Not sure if this is dependent on Page Layout options though (width etc).
0.9.6.3070

Attachment Size
test003.mscz 1.67 KB

Comments

• Jul 28, 2012 - 08:34

Yes this still happens.
Tried this in 912c592 (MuseScoreNightly-2012-07-27-912c592.7z). The resulting measure is somewhat different though:

1) New score, 4/4, one staff
2) Enter notes c, d, e, ... a, b, c (8 notes)
3) Menu: Style->General->SystemTab->FixMeasureWidth ON

Result:
The first measure has 8 misaligned notes.

Attachment Size
test.mscz 2.2 KB

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• Dec 30, 2013 - 04:54

It seems to me that unless this options causes MuseScore to relayout systems, or reduce stretch below safe levels, it's probably unavoidable that some glitches like this will occur. There's no getting around the math: measures that fit nicely under normal circumstances won't necessarily if a bunch of them are stretched out.

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• Jan 10, 2014 - 11:04

hmmm, don't know what is going on in the code when re-laying out systems, but it seems like in any case, it should be rhythmically logical.

Yes I could see that it some cases, some things may not fit "nicely." Perhaps extremely squished together, but IMO it should still make sense based on some internal metric like pixels/beat. In this case, there are 8 quarter notes in a 4/4 measure.

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