"append" only adds to the very end of the score

• Feb 11, 2025 - 17:39

I am trying to append a text frame at the bottom of a page in my score. I know the "insert" function inserts an item before the selected note/measure. However, the append feature adds the text frame to the very end of the score, even if I have a measure selected. I feel like this is a bug, but is there something different I should be doing? (running 4.4.4 on MacOS)

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• Feb 11, 2025 - 17:53

Not a new issue. Once there was some efford being made for

  1. Insert at start of score
  2. Insert before current measure
  3. Append to current measure / Insert after current measure
  4. Append to end of score

Currently indeed only option 2 and 4 exist

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• Feb 11, 2025 - 18:10

If they were to pick two, the most useful options to have would be options 2 or 3. If you are inserting a frame, it would stand to reason you are likely already on the page where you want the frame. I would more likely insert a frame after a measure I am looking at rather than go "I am on page 2 of 12. Let me add a text frame at the very end of the score". If I want to do that, I'll just click on the last measure of the score and append it there

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• Feb 11, 2025 - 18:39

I see it this way:
I would expect this to be the workflow change caused by using option 3 instead of option 4:
-make sure the user has selected the last measure if they want to put a frame at the end of the score

Whereas the workaround I had to do to accomplish the "append after measure" task in my almost finished score was as follows:
-squeeze another measure onto a full page
-use "Insert text frame" before that measure
-Delete the superfluous measure

All this while I surmise that the call for somebody to add a frame to the end of the score while not already on said page is very low

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