Fret marks in linked staff not centre-aligned to noteheads until saving, closing and re-opening
1. Open attached score (produced in 2.0).
Expected result: The fret marks are centre-aligned to the noteheads.
Actual result: The fret marks are not centre-aligned to the noteheads.
Note: This only seems to happen in a linked stave.
Using MuseScore 2.0 Nightly Build c3624cf - Mac 10.7.5.
Comments
First, what sets your expectation that they should be center-aligned? It appears they are actually left-aligning to the nominal start position for the chord - where a quarter note would start if one were present. And this seems as valid a choice to me as any. After all, we've already established that centering things at all is very much the exception and not the rule in standard music notation.
Second, are you sure that's the build you tested with? I can't reproduce what you see - they are centered for me - and it seems quite likely fix I made for vertical alignment of half notes might be what changed this. But that change was made before the build you list.
Here is a published example:
![Fret marks centre-aligned.png]( "Fret marks centre-aligned.png")
The reason why neither of us see the actual result in that score is because once it is saved, closed and re-opened, the fret marks become centred. Try creating the score from scratch - standard stave, input the notes, then add the linked tablature stave.
Regarding the layout correcting itself after saving, closing and re-opening, see this: #30001: Standard stave layout of adjacent notes mirrored in tablature
OK, and it's also order dependent - things are centered if you create the tab staff before adding the notes. So I do kind of suspect this will turn out to be a duplicate of the issue mentioned above.
But I still question where centering is any more "correct" than any other alignment. One publisher that happens to align that way isn't all that convincing, and as we've seen, it's definitely *not* common for standard notation.
As a notation software (MuseScore) that is centring noteheads, I see no reason to do otherwise for tablature - I think it would look odd.