Articulation and text associated to small staff are not small

• Feb 21, 2011 - 17:21
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore

MuseScore 1.0 and trunk r3450

  1. Create a score with a least one staff
  2. Add a couple of notes and stacattos, fermatas etc...
  3. Add some staff text or dynamics
  4. Right click on the staff -> Staff properties -> Small

Expected result : the staff and all the element around should be small
Actual result : the size of fermata and other articulation and the size of text does not change.

Comments

• Feb 22, 2011 - 14:56

FWIW, I would pretty much always want small notes to have small articulation, but that's not necessarily true of text. The most common use of small notes for me would be "cue notes" - when you show the violin player what the oboe is playing in the measures leading up to the violin entrance. In that case, the only text I would associate with those small notes would be the words "Oboe cue", nd I'd want those words full size. I'm not likely to include any actual markings from the oboe part in the cues, but if I did, then I would that text to be small. So I think there should be a property set in staff text to control whether it is made small as well. A reasonable set of defaults would be to say if the text is already attached to the notes before the notes are made small, then the text should be made small too by default. If the text is attached later, the default could be to keep it full size. That would mimic pretty well how it would tend to work out when adding cues - text within the cue would tend to already be present when creating the cue, but the label for the cue would be created afterward.

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• Feb 23, 2011 - 10:43

Regarding articulations, they are attached to a chord and not a note. So it makes it hard to decide if an articulation should be small or not. I guess the articulation is small of the whole chord is small or if all the notes in the chord are small ?

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