Great Program and Few Questions

• Jan 14, 2017 - 18:01

Hello,

first I want to say that this is really the most intuitive program I ever used!

I'm a first-time user and after reading this great one-page tutorial for 5 min. I was able to "type in" a 85 bar note sheet including song text and guitar chords in around 2 hours. It's just so easy and fast to really "type in" the notes - unbelievable when thinking about how complicated other (commercial) programs are. Therefore first of all congratulations to this really great tool! :-)

There are two - really minor - things I came across that I just wanted to mention/ask here:
1. I did not find a special musical sign that I need to add to a note:
MuseScore-MissingSign.PNG
Does somebody have an idea how I can add this little arrow to a note in the program?
2. If you add a jump sign at the beginning of a note line this sign is placed on top of the bar number:
MuseScore-JumpSign.PNG
That's not a problem as you can move it manually, but I guess this could also be auto-aligned in a better way. ;-)
3. In case a song text word is "held" for 2 or more notes the word is currently still always placed below the first note only like here:
MuseScore-SongtextPlacement.PNG
Especially if it's a bit longer word (or syllable like in this case) and the notes even need to be drag away that it fits, it would look much better if the word would get placed not just below the first note, but just going further to the second note without extending the space between the two notes like here:
MuseScore-SongtextPlacementBetter.PNG
By the way, I would generally always prefer to have a small "-" between syllables, also if the notes are near together - it just looks better.

Anyway, these all are just minor things and therefore I want to emphasize again how great I find this program which I just discovered today! :-)

Best regards
Andreas

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• Jan 14, 2017 - 18:07

Thank you for the kind words.

1. For the arrow, press Z and type arrow, drag and drop the right one to a note in your score.

3. If you add a _, MuseScore will left align.
Capture d'écran 2017-01-14 19.06.19.png

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• Jan 14, 2017 - 18:42

Hello lasconic,

first thanks a lot for your very quick reply!

3. True, this looks better already, but as you can see in your example it still drags the second note away which would not be needed if just a "___" is placed there anyway. So the note distance could stay "normal" and the underscore just shorter.

4. Another minor thing:
I don't get it to display a page number on the first page although the corresponding settings are the default once with show footer on first page is still activated:
MuseScore-FooterSettings.PNG
But no footer (page number) is displayed on the first page. Any other checkbox I missed here? ;-)

Best regards and thanks again
Andreas

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• Jan 14, 2017 - 22:57

Re: 3 - for the next major version of MuseScore (MuseScore 3) there wil be some new smarter layout facilities that should improve situations like that. So that elements can overlap where needed, rather than assuming extra space is needed where it actually isn't. For example:

lyric-overlap.png

It will also be possible to force hyphens to always display when present, as opposed to having them suppressed when space is tight as they are now.

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• Jan 14, 2017 - 23:09

Re: 2 - there was some work done to solve this problem for rehearsal marks, but it's complicated as different editors have different rules about the positions of different markings and different ways of resolving the conflicts that occasionally result. We usually try to follow Elaine Gould's "Behind Bars" where we can, but I don't see where she addresses this specific case.

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