Brackets don't entirely cover tuplets

chen lung

• Feb 1, 2011 - 21:55

Type

Functional

Severity

S4 - Minor

Status

closed

Project

MuseScore

1. Create a piano score in 4/4.
2. Create triplets based on crotchet.
3. Add quavers to each tuplet.

(if you fill bar, right-click for 'Stem Properties' and click 'bracket')

Desired result: Bracket should reach both ends of the tuplet note heads.
Actual result: Bracket reaches one side of the tuplet note heads, but only up-to the stems on the other.

See attached score for example.

Using MuseScore 1.0.0 pre-release 2 (3949) and Mac 10.4.11.

Attachment	Size
Bracket's Reach.mscz	1.88 KB

Comments

chen lung

• Feb 1, 2011 - 23:20

David Bolton

• Feb 2, 2011 - 16:24

Status (old)

active

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by design

This is consistent with LilyPond. You will see this style if you look at scores create before the advent of (less sophisticated) notation software.

For an older discussion about this (plus bugs that were fixed a while ago) see http://musescore.org/en/node/4138

chen lung

• Feb 2, 2011 - 17:00

Can you show an example of such scores?

chen lung

• Feb 22, 2011 - 13:06

Your image example shows quavers - the point where it doesn't match what's in MuseScore (same with anything lower).

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Brackets covering tuplets.mscz	2.02 KB

chen lung

• Feb 22, 2011 - 13:26

Status (old)

by design

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active

Bill Watkins

• Feb 23, 2011 - 03:02

I assume you are aware that you can double click onto a bracket then move the beginning and/or ending point as much as you wish.

chen lung

• Feb 23, 2011 - 09:12

Thanks Bill - didn't think about it (as a workaround), but it's really so that it's automatically done in future versions :).

chen lung

• May 8, 2011 - 14:15

If you flip the direction of the bracket, it's correct.

chen lung

• Jul 26, 2011 - 00:14

I'm not sure - I tried with Lilypond to match 'Bracket's Reach '. Could someone upload a complete one (I've done probably most of it)?

Despite one bracket not showing (on the quavers) and different note beaming (towards the faster notes), I was able to do 'Brackets Covering Tuplets ' (attached - also the Lilypond file).

Attachment	Size
Bracket's Reach.ly	174 bytes
Brackets Covering Tuplets.pdf	45.61 KB
Brackets Covering Tuplets.ly	465 bytes

chen lung

• May 23, 2013 - 16:20

According to page 195 of 'Behind Bars':

"A bracket should extend from the left-hand edge of the first notehead or rest, to the right-hand edge of the final notehead or rest."

System Message

• May 24, 2013 - 10:44

Status (old)

active

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fixed

Fixed in 9a8595b154

chen lung

• May 24, 2013 - 15:17

Status (old)

fixed

⇒

active

Thanks! Nearly there :).

Looking at the pages in 'Behind Bars', the edges of the brackets seem inconsistent in the different examples. They either align with the stem, or go slightly past.

In MuseScore, they are either slightly past, or slightly short. I don't know if the bracket should align with the edge of the stem/notehead, or if it should clear past them. See the attached score - produced in 1.3.

Using MuseScore 2.0 Nightly Build (4303743) - Mac 10.7.5.