Unable to add fermatas to bar lines

This is still not fixed. Any plans?

Yes, it still is on the agenda.

This is but 1 of 4 pages worth of issues that have a status of PR Created that need to get merged or put back into active status.

This one will require a rebase and a probably little work to conform to the changes in layout algorithms.

Came up again in https://musescore.org/en/node/271470

Came up again in #281313: Add fermata to a barline does not work in Musescore 3.

The only workaround is to manually edit the XML, only for the "tech-savvy"

Now we're on the subject: once in a while Musescore runs into trouble that can only be fixed manually in the XML.
A built-in XML-editor like in Inscape would be great!!

You can also put the fermata on the last note/rest of the measure and move it above the bar line.

I understand there are some technical difficulties (since barlines have no duration), but it would be nice to be able to set a pause duration for the fermata. Workaround is to also add a pause to the last note and V it to invisibility.

When attaching to a note, it will always shift horizontally with every recalculation of every note's position, you'd have to check every time you edit the score. So not really a feasable work-around.
It was possible in Musescore 2, for compatibility's sake should it be possible in musescore 3, especially since, when added manually in the source, it is rendered just fine.
p.s. a fermata over a barline, is not that uncommon

If you use my workaround, use it only after measure lengths for the system are fixed to prevent the fermata from wondering when you edit. Everyone agrees it's a bug and regression that needs fixed. Hopefully this will be fixed before the next release.

Would someone please explain to me how the barline functions as an element of time. To my understanding, bar lines are imaginary musically and are simply a device for orienting players to the over all structure?

By that logic a fermata would end up on a rest of designed length.

Xavier, have a look here (and many other sources)

Thank you so much. :)

Have a great day.

More information than you need here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermata, but specifically:

Fermata is the Italian name for the sign (𝄐), which in English is commonly called a Pause, and signifies that the note over which it is placed should be held on beyond its natural duration. It is sometimes put over a bar or double bar, in which case it intimates a short interval of silence

or treat it like a caesura?

In 2.x the timestretch of fermatas on barlines had no effect to playback. So in 3.0 we should be able to live with it for the time being, bug fixed, feature request pending ;-)

Should I file an official feature request for the pause or is there one already?

(and yay/thanks for the bug fix)

Covered under #276713: Fermatas are miscategorised?

Fixed in branch master, commit a368d41c95

fix #270990: Unable to add fermatas to bar lines

Fixed in branch master, commit 172d809bfa

_Merge pull request #3595 from mattmcclinch/270990-fermatas-over-barlines

fix #270990: Unable to add fermatas to bar lines_

Fixed in branch 3.0.x, commit a0cdc9372f

_Merge pull request #3595 from mattmcclinch/270990-fermatas-over-barlines

fix #270990: Unable to add fermatas to bar lines_

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.