support of "half" slurs with open end (in a repeat measure)
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Many
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
In case of repeats (or jumps) sometimes a "half" slur is necessary. This means that the last chord of the measure shall be merged to the first chord of the measure that is jumped to.
The same applies to hold slurs (the difference is just that the notes are really merged to one). But as a first approach normal slurs would do it, too.
Actually a slur always connects to the chord of the next measure - which is of cause the normal behaviour.
Comments
This is actually a suggestion rather than a bug. The workaround is found at https://musescore.org/en/node/267614
In reply to This is actually a… by mike320
To tell the truth, none of the work-arounds is really satisfactory.
But I agree that it is a suggestion...
While there are workarounds (which I have yet to understand, as that page is a rather long read and confusing to new users), this is rather basic editing and should not require a workaround to begin with.
For jazz standards there are many tunes beginning with an upbeat where the last note uses a slur going into bar 1 of the tune. If A section is played twice, often times that is notated as first and second ending, while the first ending then needs a slur on the last note.
Just ran into this shortcoming of Musescore; I was working on a score of Linus and Lucy by Vince Guaraldi. I'm guessing this hasn't been addressed yet, the workarounds are not satisfactory.
Carmine
The workaround is not supposed to satisfy you, else it'd be the fix ;-)
But the workarounds do work! I think the tie to invisible grace note is probably the most recommended at this point. I used to prefer a text element but am warming to the grace note method.