Some bracketed instruments presented as single staff still have brackets
This is a problem with some bracketed instruments: Piano, clavichord, bandonian, harmonium, electric piano, celesta, harpsichord, marimba, tuned klaxon horns, almglocken and harp.
1. In Instrument, choose piano.
2. Remove either the bass or treble clef.
3. Done.
Expected behaviour: Instruments presented in a single staff should not have a bracket.
Actual behaviour: A squashed bracket appears.
Workaround: Right-click the bracket and delete.
Using MuseScore 1.0 and 2.0 nightly build (4130) - Mac 10.4.11.
Comments
I think this comes under the same bug and could be fixed when this is. If anyone thinks otherwise, I'll file it as a separate issue.
1. In Instrument, add all that's in the keyboard section.
2. Remove multiple staves (leaving a minimum of one per instrument).
3. Click Done.
Result: The left side of the system features overlapping brackets (image ).
Workaround: Add instruments individually.
Using MuseScore 1.0 and 2.0 nightly build (4130) - Mac 10.4.11.
It should be noted that if you choose to leave Stave 1 remaining, the bar line doesn't appear (unless you have multiple instruments).
Other instruments it affects: Organ and electronic organ.
FWIW (which is really probably not much), using 0.9.6.3 and Windows 7, I could reproduce the original issue, but the secondary issue in post #1 was not an issue in 0.9.6.3, so that one appears to be a regression. In the second issue, however, while the brackets didn't overlap, they were still there, but I would think that falls under the original issue. Hope it helps.
Regarding #2, if you create a voice only (possibly affects other single bracket instruments), the bar line will not appear at the start.
#3626: Brackets for extracted parts
I didn't see that one.
Elaine Gould writes in "Behind Bars": about organ notation:
"A single-stave manual part must take a compressed curly brace if there is also a pedal stave present, to distinguish the two: a pedal stave never takes a brace".
So i conclude that a single staff with a curly brace is valid notation and mscores behaviour is a feature instead of a bug :-)
For Pipe Organ in 3 staves, see this (brace for treble and bass, not pedal). For Pipe Organ in 2 treble staves, also in 1 stave, see attached.
What about other instruments though (see example for piano)?
:)?
Updated example of braces colliding (the other one is unavailable now).
Using MuseScore 1.1 and 2.0 Nightly Build (4947) - Mac 10.6.8.
Current trunk behaviour for a score with a single bracketed part where one staff is removed: no bracket is present.
Current trunk behaviour for a score with a bracketed part where one staff is removed plus another part: the first part is bracketed and the bracket spans two staves (i.e. it includes the first staff of the second part). This is #21452: Incorrect brace after deleting staff in new score wizard.