Transposing moves the slash notation "notes"

• Apr 25, 2012 - 21:58
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project
Slash Notation Styles

to repeat this:

1. add slash notation in a section of the score
2. select all
3. Notation > transpose

The slashes move up/down the staff

Screen shot of the result attached.

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Comments

• Apr 25, 2012 - 22:36

It won't be any different in the trunk. Slashes in MuseScore are currently just ordinary notes that happen to be stemless, slash-headed, and silent. There is nothing in the underlying MuseScore architecture that would support slash notation that was immune to transposition, although there is an outstanding feature request to add this: http://musescore.org/en/node/8924.

BTW, installing a nitly build will not mess up 1.X in any whatsoever - the nightlies get their own sandbox to play in.

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• Oct 29, 2013 - 11:20

Is there a way of making the slashes different shaped rests rather than notes? I don't think the rests move when transposed and I just thought this might be a way to resolve the issue. I don't know anything about programming so I have no idea if this is even possible, just a thought.

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• Oct 29, 2013 - 14:22

As mentioned above, there is a separate existing feature request suggesting this specific implementation: #8924: Add native support for slash notation. Even though the idea is clever, as discussed there, I don't think that implementation is ideal for various reasons - it gets more complicated when you consider rhythmic notation, accent notation, the desire to have invisible notes underlying the slashesf or playback, etc.

But indeed, there needs to be *some* sort of native support for slash notation, both for transposition reasons but also for MusicXML. I have ideas on how this could be implemented and may try my hand at it some day, but I think not for 2.0.

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• Dec 8, 2013 - 15:51

Why not make a non-transposable note group? I ran into this the other day doing so manually. It is not a plugin problem as some might suspect.

Ted

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• Dec 8, 2013 - 16:22

That's definitely a relatively straightforward possibility. I would kind of rather there be support for slash notation that didn't require each individual slash to be represented explicitly as a special note, but ultimately, whatever works best with MusicXML would be fine by me.

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