Parentheses added to an accidental in a part do not appear on the master score

• Mar 30, 2022 - 21:00

According to the handbook page about parts:

> Parts and score are "linked", which means that any change to the content in one will affect the other, but changes to the layout will not.

I am transcribing a score that sometimes puts parentheses around an accidental. I follow this procedure:

Enter the note and select it
Using the Accidentals palette, add the accidental
Click the accidental to select it
Using the Accidentals palette, add parentheses

This score has 40 instruments so I am doing the work directly in the parts. When I check the master score tab, the note will have the accidental but the parentheses aren't there. Is this expected?

I'm using MuseScore version (64-bit): 3.6.2.548020600, revision: 3224f34

Comments

Jojo-Schmitz

• Mar 31, 2022 - 08:42

An accidental's bracket apperently isn't synced between score and parts, but it does get copied on part creation. They are apparently considered layout rather than content, and it seems by design, as per
libmscore/property.cpp, line 137:

      { Pid::ACCIDENTAL_BRACKET,      false, "bracket",               P_TYPE::INT,                 DUMMY_QT_TRANSLATE_NOOP("propertyName", "bracket")          },
      { Pid::ACCIDENTAL_TYPE,         true,  "subtype",               P_TYPE::INT,                 DUMMY_QT_TRANSLATE_NOOP("propertyName", "type")             },

that false.

As long as we don't have a way to break (or set) that syncing, we have to stay on the conservative side and only link those that we're absolutly sure to (almost) never need to break, like here the ACCIDENTAL_TYPE