Displacement of dotted notes
When engraving polyphonic music that has dotted notes, MuseScore seems to default in weird displacement of the dotted notes presumably due to worries about the dot colliding with the adjacent notehead. Notes without dots are displaced as expected.
Is it possible to manually displace the notes "the other way around" (stems lining up)? This seems to be how most of the music is engraved.
Comments
Top line in voice 1 flip stems, bottom line voice 2.
![bass.jpg]( "bass.jpg")
In reply to Top line in voice 1 flip… by rothers
Looks good, but I'm not sure I quite follow what you mean! The top voice is voice 1 and the bottom is voice 2. This is what happens when I flip the stems ("Flip direction") on voice 1
![displacement2.png]( "displacement2.png")
In reply to Looks good, but I'm not sure… by sahuhtala1
I wrote voice 1 first, flipped it's stems, then wrote voice 2 and it gave me this:
![bass2.jpg]( "bass2.jpg")
I did this with Musescore 3.7 if that makes any difference.
P.S. please insert your attachments so we don't need to open them.
In reply to I wrote voice 1 first,… by rothers
OK got that now, thanks! Unfortunately I'm not getting the same results as you (I'm using 4.3.1) 🙁 But thanks anyway!
Attached is a skeleton file if somebody with 4 wants to give it a try
In reply to I wrote voice 1 first,… by rothers
In fact in Musescore 3.7 you don't need to flip voice 1, as soon as you start to enter voice 2 it automatically flips voice 1 for you.
In reply to In fact in Musescore 3.7 you… by rothers
Interestingly in Musescore 3.7 your .mscz opens as this:
![ms37.jpg]( "ms37.jpg")
Another MS4.* regression ?
In reply to Interestingly in Musescore 3… by rothers
Yea, seems like a regression then. This is the exact same file in 4.3.1
![displacement3.png]( "displacement3.png")
In reply to Yea, seems like a regression… by sahuhtala1
As a workaround you could change to chord x-offset of one of the voices but this could be tedious for the whole piece.
In reply to As a workaround you could… by rothers
With Musescore 3.7 If I enter the lower line in voice 3 I get this (second bar), another variation. Maybe trying voice 3 or even 4 could help with Musecscore 4
![bass3.jpg]( "bass3.jpg")
A gnarly problem. MuseScore 4's behaviour matches what some style guides prescribe (it is not a "regression"), though not all, and it is not even always desired. We intent to make this controllable in 4.4; for now, manually offsetting notes is your best bet (though tedious).
In reply to A gnarly problem. MuseScore… by oktophonie
Great - controllable would be the best obviously. I'm OK with doing some manual work with it now since it's pretty much the only thing I need to tweak 👍