Turn off automatic chord formatting
I'm trying to write "Ð" in a chord symbol, but Musescore changes it to "o" when I stop editing the symbol. It happens if I write "Ð7/5", and similar as well, to "o7/5".
How can I prevent this?
I have turned off Format -> Style -> Chord Symbols -> Automatic Capitalisation.
I'm using version 3.5.0.13199.
Comments
In writing "Ð" you're trying to outsmart the chord symbols parser.
What actually is a "Ð" supposed to be?
Check https://musescore.org/en/handbook/chord-symbols to see what MuseScore does understand and how to enter it
In reply to In writing "Ð" you're trying… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for your reply!
I'm not trying to outsmart it. It's a way of notating D with a slash, which means the dominant seventh chord without the first (for example C# E G in D major) in functional analysis.
I think I'm trying to avoid Musescore trying to understand it at all. It's weird to me that it seems something that it doesn't understand and automatically formats it to something completely different and it seems to me that I should be able to disable that.
By the way, I tried it in an older version of Musescore, and it didn't automatically format it.
In reply to Thanks for your reply! I'm… by AndrzejRzeczycki
MuseScore doesn't understand that, obviously
That older version won't have recognized it as a chord symbol either, like it won't have exported it to MusicXML, or transposed it
In reply to MuseScore doesn't understand… by Jojo-Schmitz
That's exactly the issue here though.. Even though the parser shouldn't understand it, and thus ignore it, it misinterprets it into something else it also doesn't understand.
Expected Result: No Change
Actual Result: The "Ð" has been changed into an "o"
I suspect some kind of string encoding artifact popping up
In reply to Thanks for your reply! I'm… by AndrzejRzeczycki
So it sounds like this isn't a chord symbol at all, but functional analysis? If you, try instead using the Roman Numeral Analysis feature, or just ordinary staff text. The chord symbol feature assuming it is an actual chord symbol and tries to interpret it as such, But you don't want that. Like, I'm guessing if you transpose this score up a step, you won't want that D turned into an E...