My feature request list

Rather than doing a whole batch of separate posts, here's a list of features that ought to be considered to speed up creating MuseScore files. In no particular order:

* Beaming across staves/systems. I know this has been brought up before, but I'm adding my voice.

* Cross-beaming of grace notes. I had to jump through a lot of hoops in my last score because I couldn't cross-beam grace notes.

* The symbol for una corda, |_|_| , needs to be added to one of the palettes. Also, a Ped. line that starts with "Ped." and ends with a 45-degree hook would be usefule.

* Custom synthesizer setups, when saved to the score, should load automatically when opening .mscz files.

* An Inspector item to make beams and brackets over tuplets horizontal. Having to adjust these guys by hand is a real PITA.

* Text formatting is so basic it's practically brain-dead, but I can live with that if at least an option for changing the linespacing is added to text-formatting. I can't believe it isn't there already. It wouldn't hurt to give some thought to easing the creation of title pages, either.

* You can add text to a line (say, Ritardando), but you can't format the text or adjust the position of the text in relation to the line. To overcome the restriction, you have to create staff text and format it appropriately, then create a line, then align the two horizontally and vertically. That's an awful lot of work.

* There needs to be a way to lock objects that must always stay together so they can be moved as a group. Shift-drag sometimes highlights more than just the desired objects, meaning you to de-select afterwards, adding steps to what should be a single click operation.

* A way to select objects that are underneath other objects. I feel one shouldn't have to move the topmost object out of place in order to get to the object underneath.

* A better algorithm for determining what constitutes a note stem. Very often, I can't highlight the stem; the flag gets highlighted instead. I have to blow my scores up to some ridiculous percent and the hunt around with the mouse for a place that highlights the stem and not the flag.

* Have lines and pedal marks work like hairpins, i.e. if two notes are selected, the line or pedal mark gets drawn between the notes only.

* Add the ability to hide staves that contain only invisibles, the way empty staves can be hidden. In my last score, I had to resort to trickery to get the playback to match the notation. It would have been very nice--and much easier to make sense of, later--if all the trickery could have gone into a staff that could be hidden.