Slurs. The length of ALL my (manually) extended slurs reverts to just two notes when I edit something unrelated.

• Oct 12, 2021 - 12:11

Hi,
When a slur is created, (from pressing 's' on my keyboard), it covers the selected note and the one next to it. I extend it when necessary. Then, if I edit something completely unrelated, Musescore shortens all the long slurs to just the original note, and its next one - as if it had just been created! Lengthening all the slurs yet again is tedious - and when I next dare to edit anything, back they go to being short.
Other bells and whistles within bars stay faithful and unchanged within that bar, (staccato marks, emphasis marks etc.). Why not the slurs? It appears to happen only downstream of the editing. Very frustrating, and causing me a lot of repeat work. Am I creating the slur, or extending it, in some mistaken way so that it is not permanent? Any thoughts?

Clive.

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• Oct 12, 2021 - 12:14

How do you edit? You'd need to double click it and use Shift+right to extend it, not just drag their handles using the mouse.
If you share the score we can check further

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• Oct 12, 2021 - 12:33

Thanks Jojo,

I think you have supplied the answer. Hitherto, after selecting the note to slur, and pressing 's' on the keyboard, I then click on the slur, select the right-hand 'square' of the slur, and lengthen the slur to the right using merely the 'move right' button (from the up/down/left/right) four on the keyboard. This obviously does not render the extended slur permanent.

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• Oct 12, 2021 - 12:47

The correct way to extend slurs is described in the handbook, here: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/slurs#normal-mode
and if you scroll down that page further to the section headed "Adjust slur" you will see that what you are doing is changing the position of the slur rather than extending the range of notes it affects. Resetting with CTRL+R will reset the position to it's "pre-adjustment" state but will not reset the range of the slur.

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• Oct 12, 2021 - 12:28

A Reset command (Ctrl+R) would cause a slur to revert to the original right-anchor i.e. the default position before you dragged the slur while trying to extend it. If it happens to all your slurs, that could be as a result of "Select All, Reset".

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