Arpeggio looks wrong
I was messing with a friends score that uses arpeggio's and have come to realize that they do not look correct. They are very thick-lined, along with what looks like a regular arpeggio squiggly line underneath it. Going into Edit General Style and editing the arpeggio's thickness does not fix it. In fact, it makes no difference in it appearance whatsoever.
I've also tried re-starting and re-installing Musescore to see if that would fix this issue. But, it does not.
I've cropped a screenshot of said Arpeggio. Please let me know if this is a known issue. I tried searching, but could not find anything that related to this. Thanks!
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Comments
It looks like it's covering a quarter rest. Try deleting the arpeggio and see what's under it. Then make that's invisible (Rt. click on it). Then replace the arpeggio.
In reply to It looks like it's covering a by xavierjazz
No, there is nothing underneath it if I delete it. That's the first thing I tried when I discovered this. Every time an arpeggio is put in, it looks like that. Let me try and upload a sample score with an arpeggio. I will upload it soon.
Edit: That's funny.... It only happens in that specific piece I'm working on. Creating a new score from scratch removes the problem. I don't know where to go from here if I can't recreate it in a new score, and I can't fix it in an old score. All I can say is that when I work on it with my friend, we share the score through skype. And he uses the same version of musescore that I do -- that being the latest version 1.2.
In reply to No, there is nothing by Sean Oliveras
Are you able to share the score here?
That looks exceedingly strange!
In reply to No, there is nothing by Sean Oliveras
If you post the score with the problem - even perhaps just an excerpt from it (delete or clear out other measures) - that might provide a clue as to why it is happening, and maybe a fix for the score will be discovered.
Looks more like an arpeggio with an arrow sitting on top of one that doesn't such as one might get if there were two voices in the measure and each had an arpeggio. Really need to see the original score to be sure.
I think I've discovered where the problem lies.
Download the mscz file below.
Open file. (Here you see an excerpt of the Glockenspiel part from the score I'm working on. It's obvious what the problem looks like by looking at the Arpeggio markings.)
To see where I think the problem lies, do the following:
Go to Layout > Page Settings...
Under Scaling, reset the spacing to a higher number. (The reason this is set so low was to be able to fit an entire score on a single 8.5x11 page.)
Now, you can see that the problem is not present.
So, can someone clarify what this problem is, and if there is at all a way to fix it?
In reply to I think I've discovered where by Sean Oliveras
Ah, it seems the symbol is not scaling correctly - due some sort of quirk in how the line is shaped and how the resizing algorithm works, as you scale down, the line appears to get thicker, not thinner.
Only workaround I can think of is to go back to full size staves but set your paper size larger enough to fit the whole score, then do the scaling in your print driver using "fit to page" (I would imagine most OS/drivers provide this). I've often thought about this as a way around other scaling bugs, such as the fact that some text items don't scale at all.
I tested this on 2.0 and it appears to still be an issue. You might want to submit an issue. It's easy to reproduce - scaling values below 1.5mm or so result in the arpeggio symbol getting stranger and stranger.
In reply to Ah, it seems the symbol is by Marc Sabatella
Forgot to submit an issue for this too. Doing so now... Thanks for all your help!