Unable to adjust Glissando continuation space when spanning systems
Reported version
2.1
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
Nightly acf6580
See attached score. The default glissando continuation line in measure 5 (2nd system) is too long: it should be shorter, allowing the notes to be positioned nearer the beginning of the staff.
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Comments
What is your source for dictating what the length should be? The default was chosen to make sure the line itself is clearly visible. Offhand, I don't see any obvious objective basis for saying what constitutes an appropriate default.
Yes, the line is long enough to be clearly visible and that is a good thing. But the music symbols in the bar do not automatically reposition if the user wants to shorten the glissando continuation line (and manual readjustment of all the symbols in the bar is not easy). A feature request perhaps?
FWIW, here's an excerpt from a guitar score that shows a shorter glissando continuation:
It's not clear that things should adjust automatically if you adjust the line. After all, you reason for adjusting the line might be too add more space between the line and note, perhaps to be able to fit some other marking there. But I would agree it would be nice if there a way to control this length. It could conceivably be a style option.
I agree with Marc here.
Maybe change into a feature request to control the length in style or inspector.
So, I'll change this to a feature request: To allow the user to set default glissando continuation length when spanning systems, as a style option.
Deleted.
Not only is the space for the continuation line too wide (compared to engraving practice in published guitar scores), but the layout in the system is also broken (see attached score, measures 7-8). Also, there is another bug which prevents the user from correcting the excess space at the start of the system (see #139846: Leading space adjustment for generated elements lost on save/reload).
This is now fixed. See #104716: Glissando between grace note and first note of system causes bad layout.