Fermata loses assignment to voice and direction

I don't have my copy of Gould handy, but probably we should set default placement to below for even numbered voices? I guess one consideration is the Inspector tends to be confused by stuff like this with respect to knowing when to enable "reset" and what it should do.

BTW, looks from the code like we are expecting there to simply be separate palette items for above/below versions of the fermata, as per ChordRest::drop().

The existing code in ChordRest::drop() is about replacing an existing fermata, and making sure that the new placement matches the old one. In any case, we should probably first set the fermata's placement to Placement::BELOW if the ChordRest's up() method returns false.

Edit: I guess it can't be based solely on the direction of the chord, after all. Setting the placement to BELOW for even voices seems like the right call.

Right, fermatas always go above the staff except with multiple voices.

Again, one thing to watch out for is the behavior of the Inspector Reset button.

Again, one thing to watch out for is the behavior of the Inspector Reset button.

Good call. I was just about to miss that. I notice that there is no such thing as Placement::AUTO. Perhaps there should be.

See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/4438.

Fixed in branch master, commit 34f261df2a

fix #273302: Fermata loses assignment to voice and direction

Fixed in branch master, commit d32f837e1d

Merge pull request #4438 from mattmcclinch/273302-fermata-placement

fix #273302: Fermata loses assignment to voice and direction

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