Unexpected Brace behaviour in staff/Tab systems
I am using a conventional guitar staff/ linked Tab system with a brace applied across the two staffs at the left hand edge of each system. I turn off staff names and there is no horizontal offsetting of the system.
If I double click the brace, then press Ctrl + left arrow, the brace and the left-hand edge of the system moves to the right, thus offsetting the system. This is unexpected behaviour.
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I can't reproduce that, using the guitar+tab template and adding a brace
Sorry, I missed out an important detail. The staff/Tab system in question had a horizontal frame in front of it to provide an indent. So the insertion of a vertical text box caused the brace and the horizontal frame to break away.
In reply to Sorry, I missed out an by geetar
Ah! I can reproduce, results in something like this, right?
![bug.png]( "bug.png")
In reply to Sorry, I missed out an by geetar
Yes, I can reproduce too. You can get the results you want by adding the frames in the opposite order - first add the text frame, then the horizontal frame.
What is happening right now is that MuseScore is taking you too literally. You said you wanted the text frame before the first measure, not before the horizontal frame. So it's trying to lay things out in that order: first the horizontal frame, then the text frame, then the first measure. But since the horizontal frame has nothing to attach to, you get this glitch. Probably MuseScore should figure out you really want the text frame to come before the horizontal frame. Feel free to file an bug report to the issue tracker (Help / Rebort a Bug) on this.
In reply to Sorry, I missed out an by geetar
Replied by mistake. There was no horizontal frame.
Two different reports have got conflated here – my mistake. The answers you've given are to another report Inserting vertical frame to measure 1 breaks off brace/bracket etc.
I posted the wrong information – there was no horizontal frame. So the original post stands. But, as it can't be reproduced I will leave it for now.
In reply to Two different reports have by geetar
Perhaps you actually did *Shift* plus left arrow? This does seem to have the effect of creating an indent. Not just for this system but for the whole score. Not sure what you were expecting to happen, or what *should* happen.