Alignment of score elements
It would be real nice to have an alignment function for score elements in MuseScore. For example, in mullti-part scores, it is often desirable to align crescendos, ottava lines, dynamics - vertically across all staves. You could select each object and have a menu item to "Align vertically" (with options to align lefts, center or rights)
Similarly, a method for horizontal alignment of elements on a single staff, for example dynamics markings, would be great.
It's mostly cosmetic of course, but it improves reading and makes the score look a lot more professional. Today it's a lot of fiddling with the mouse/keyboard to get it right.
Comments
Great idea.
Take a look at a score from a major publisher. You may be surprised to discover that the crescendos, dynamic markings, etc are not perfectly aligned. Instead they take into consideration a multitude of factors. If your goal is professional looking scores I would recommend against vertically aligning all the score elements. You may also be interested to know that Finale doesn't have a "vertical align" option. I don't know whether Sibelius does or not.
In reply to Take a look at a score from a by David Bolton
Of course, surrounding score elements needs to be considered, and the priority must be on each staff having "correct" notation and layout. This would still be a useful feature, for those situations where several staves have identical rythms and phrases. This would also be a nice feature for creating worksheets, scale excercises and so on, where an aligned layout looks, well - just better.
Yes, Sibelius has this kind of feature ("Align in a row" and "Align in a column") for horizontal / vertical alignment.