Copying and pasting bars with chord symbols does not overwrite existing chord symbols
Reported version
3.6
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
by design
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
When pasting chord symbols onto a bar that already has chord symbols, it does not overwrite the existing symbols, e.g.
- Bar 1 contains chord symbols Am (blank) C (blank) (and notes that match them)
- Bar 2 contains chord symbols (blank) B (blank) Dm (and notes that match them)
- How to reproduce: Copy and paste contents of Bar 1 onto Bar 2
- Expected result: Bar 2 is an identical copy of Bar 1 (notes and chord symbols)
- Actual result: Bar 2 contains the notes of Bar 1 (correct) but the chord symbols of Bar 1 and Bar 2 (e.g. a union - incorrect): Am B C Dm
Additional info:
- "Swap with clipboard" exhibits the same behaviour.
- Staff text and fingering symbols do not exhibit this behaviour.
- Workaround: clear/delete/remove the contents of the bar(s) you want to paste into, before pasting.
| Attachment | Size |
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| chord symbol join.png | 154.81 KB |
Comments
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This is currently by design, after considerable discussion and refinement and compromise over the years: replace chords that conflict but don't remove chords that don't. It's the right behavior for some use case, no for others, and I don't know that anyone has ever been 100% satisfied with any of the proposals. So worth further forum discussion for sure. But, current behavior is the best anyone has come up with so far in terms of meeting the various different needs people have expressed thus far.
Thank you. I have changed status to "by design", based on the above and the discussion in forum discussion thread Copying and pasting bars with chord symbols does not overwrite existing chord symbols.