dotted and dashed sluts and lines
Dotted and dashed slurs are too fine grained to be discernible as discontinuous lines when score and parts are rendered as PDFs then printed.
I don't think there is any way to change the granularity of dots and dashes. Could this be fixed or more options added?
Richard
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see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/layout-and-formatting#style-edit-gene…, you can make dotted slurs/ties thicker there
In reply to see by Jojo-Schmitz
Unfortunately that isn't what I'm looking for. I want to decrease the number of dots/dashes per inch for a given dotted line. The default pitch is too high. When printed on a lazer printer dashed lines look continuous.
And actually I'd say there a general need to have greater control over dashed/dotted lines. For example "cresc. - - - - -" is quite a common notation. Because the widely spaced dashes can't be done other than by means of a system or stave text entry then they don't automatically flow across line breaks. If the dashed line could be enter as a line then it would flow automatically. Yes, I can do this manually, but it's a lot of effort especially when you have linked parts and score to maintain.
In reply to Unfortunately that isn't what by richardm999
there is a 'custom dashed' option in 3.0 (or rather will be, once released), for 'normal' lines (it replaces 2.0.3's 'wide dashed'), not for slurs/ties though, might be worth a feature request
In reply to there is a 'custom dashed' by Jojo-Schmitz
What version are you using? I have 2.03. My dashed slurs (and hairpins) come out perfectly in pdf (and on screen in MuseScore as well). Dotted slurs are not so good, the dots are too small for this particular purpose.
In reply to What version are you using? by azumbrunn
I am using 2.0.2 on ubuntu.
The PDF looks fine from acrobat reader, but when printed it doesn't. I'd prefer a less granular form of dashed slur.
I guess a feature request is in order.
Richard
In reply to I am using 2.0.2 on ubuntu. by richardm999
But FWIW, 2.0.3 already offers "cresc" lines with widely spaced dashes (and the wide dash type is available for other straight lines, albeit not for slurs). So simply updating will help.
In reply to But FWIW, 2.0.3 already by Marc Sabatella
I hadn't realised 2.03 was available to Linux. Now upgraded. That is a great improvement. Thanks for mentioning it.
Richard
In reply to there is a 'custom dashed' by Jojo-Schmitz
and in https://musescore.org/en/node/186221 custom dashed slures came up again.