C-Clefs won't save in a template
Back again (at least a little bit;).
It came up again shortly from a German topic forum (https://musescore.org/de/node/278312).
I'm aware for a long time, that's isn't possible to create a template with C-Clefs (alto clef, tenor clef) and load it again for a new score. I thought, there was an issue tracker entry before to this topic, but couldn't find it.
Not sure if is realistic/important enough to be fixed for the next major release.
Comments
It is possible to create such templates, as demonstrated in that German topic. The problem is that scores created from a template use the default clef for the instruments it contains, and in instruments.xml there is no instrument that uses these old C-clef (or alto or tenor clef), so a template needs to get 'hand edited'
Adding 'instruments' for this, "Soprano (C-clef)","Alto (alto clef)", etc, esp. for Early Music should be possible.
Feel free to submit a request for that in the issue tracker. Once all the details are sorted this should be a very easy fix and I don't see why it won't make it into the next version.
I think we need this for Soprano, Mezzosoprano, Alto, Tenor and Bariton, and all for Early music
In reply to It is possible to create… by Jojo-Schmitz
I think it would be better to use a user entered clef in a template if it's entered to replace the first clef in the score to create a template. This is better than adding more instruments that only differ by having the clef changed and no difference in range or transposition. That would be far more flexible.
In reply to I think it would be better… by mike320
user entered clefs in templates are not honoured in scores created from them, that is the problem.
And adding some instruments to the Early Music section won't do any harm
see #278382: C-Clefs won't be saved/honoured in a template