Multiple text objects and multi-measure rests

• Mar 29, 2019 - 12:22

I just figured out that when you have multiple texts at the start of a measure that then gets grouped into a multi-measure rest, it hides all but one of the texts. I don't recall MuseScore 2 ever doing this and don't see a real benefit to hiding all but one text object.

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• Mar 29, 2019 - 12:37

Presumably there are no notes in the measure (which is why it gets grouped into a multi-measure rest).
So, in measure properties, you can tick 'Break multimeasure rest' and that measure won't get grouped.

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• Mar 29, 2019 - 14:25

Your presumption is correct and your suggestion is one option for working around it, but I suppose my request is to make it unnecessary to use a workaround.

In standard sheet music, when an instrument has 8 bars of rest, the 8 bars are always grouped together. I know from experience that if you separate the first one to show text, it results in people accidentally counting wrong.

I realize it may not be terribly common to have a couple different entries of system text in the same measure, but I discovered this issue when I was working on a piece where I had started a new section with the name of the new song title (it was a medley) as well as a description of "freely" for the tempo. The section started with only 2 of the dozens of instruments playing and on every other part i generated, the song title disappeared. I ultimately just decided the song title was more important than the word "freely", but I had to manually remove the descriptor in each part.

It may be a while before I run into this again, although I work on a lot of medleys, so I suspect it will keep happening, and I can find ways to work around it. However, I thought this would be an appropriate feature request. I'm sure MuseScore is behaving the way it was designed to behave, but there's really no decent workaround to achieve exactly the result I'm looking for, hence the feature request.

Thanks.

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• Mar 29, 2019 - 14:47

Technically, I've got 4 items all on the same measure/beat. There's a rehearsal mark, a new tempo of quarter = 64, a system text in a large bold font within a box with the song title, and a separate system text in the standard text format saying "freely." It's the 2 system texts that cause the problem, with only 1 displaying on parts with the multi-measure rests, something I found out about because someone else posted about it in the forums. Ultimately, the best workaround may be to just use a different format on the second text and see if everything shows up. However, that's extra work to get bypass a design decision that I'm not sure I see the benefit of.

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• Mar 29, 2019 - 14:55

I see now. It's a bug that needs fixed. You should report it at https://musescore.org/en/node/add/project_issue?pid=1236 with a severity of S3 - Major. There is no easy workaround except to put a staff text on each system, but that would be ridiculous. It would also lead to the staff being visible (if you hide when empty) unless you then make the text invisible in the main score only. It's also a regression since it worked correctly in version 2.

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