Rearranging Note groupings and flags??
I've been trying to write out a handwritten piece for my orchestra class for a few days now (the handwriting is mostly illegible) and one issue I've found is that musescore always groups the wrong notes together. Eg, I'll want two 16ths and two 32nds grouped together with a separate eighth right afterwards. Musescore will group the 16ths together, and then the 32nds and the 8th for some reason... Is there a way to change the preference for these, or at least a way to manually rearrange them?
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You can manually rearrange the beaming by using the "Beam Properties" section of the Palette. There are instructions at https://musescore.org/en/node/36046.
What version of MuseScore? 1.3 was fairly naive about such things, but 2.0 should do things correctly - according to standard established modern engraving practices, anyhow - in most cases. Feel free to post a sample score showing a case where you think it is not working as it should; there probably are some unusual corner cases we miss.
You don't say what time signature you are in. But in either 4/4 or 6/8 or any similar time signature, it would be incorrect notation to have 2 16ths, two 32nds, and a separate eighth - unless maybe the whole thing were preceded by a sixteenth rest. But if that's at the beginning of the measure, the 16ths and 32nds add up to 3/4 of a beat in 4/4, meaning it's incorrect to have an eighth note next - it needs to be a sixteenth to complete that beat, tied to a sixteenth starting the next beat. But if you do have a sixteenth rest before all that, then indeed, this carries you to the end of the beat, and the eighth is on beat 2 and should not be beamed with the others. This works correctly in 2.0. In 1.3, as I said, it's a bit more naive, and does not break that beam automatically, you so need to use Beam Properties to override it.
But for the record, in 2.0, you can change the defaults in Time Signature Properties (eright click the time signature).