C-Clefs won't be saved/honoured in a template

• Nov 17, 2018 - 18:10
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
MuseScore

It cames up from time to time.

Steps to reproduce:

  • create a new score, for example open SATB score
  • change the clefs for Soprano, Alto, and Tenor to their C-Clef (early music)
  • save the score as template
  • load this template

expected result: C-Clefs will be loaded
actual result: Treble clefs (8vb) will be loaded

There are two workarounds:

Comments

• Nov 17, 2018 - 18:32
Severity S3 - Major ⇒ S5 - Suggestion

Not a bug, but a feature request, to add these "instruments" to instruments.xml, in the Early Music category. Adding Mezzosoprano and Bariton too.

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• Nov 17, 2018 - 18:45

It's at least worth considering the possibility of reading initial clefs from the template and using these to set initial clefs in the new score, though. Yes, clefs are "content" in this sense and we don't generally preserve content, but maybe this is a reasonable exception?

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• Nov 17, 2018 - 19:26

From my personal view besides the links above: If I transcribe a score from IMSLP (I hope I'll find time again ;-), there are a lot of scores with these early music clefs. For these scores with several movements it would be indeed an improvement to have the possibility to load a template for each movement (single score).

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