Caesura improvements
I'm delighted to see that Caesuras now have playback! But a simple suggetion: add a property in the inspector to control it's duration (just like the "time stretch" of the fermata).
Also, in my experience, Caesuras always occur across the entire system, so it'd be helpful if they applied to the entire system just like when we add in a key change! Right now we have to put them in one by one... since I write a lot of 8-part vocal scores or even orchestral scores, it's a pain.
Thanks!
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You can use [Ctrl] c to Copy the caesura. Then hold down [Ctrl] and click on each note/rest in turn and then [Ctrl] v to paste the caesura(s). But, yes, I can see how it would be helpful in some cases to have the option to apply the caesura to all staves - but it might take some tricky rules and coding to deal with cases where the caesura falls in the middle of a measure and some staves have notes and others have a whole-bar rest.
In reply to You can use [Ctrl] c to Copy by underquark
I'll try that, thanks.
That is a tricky situation. How about this:
When adding a Caesura to a note, the Caesura is put on the score immediately AFTER the beat. MS would check at the end of whatever beat for an opening, and place the caesura. If no opening is found, it would fail. So if you have one staff with a half note, and the next staff with two quarters, and a third staff with a quarter and then a half, and you put the caesura on the half note, it would be applied to the quarter note below (the second quarter note) but would fail to apply to the third staff because it would fall in the middle of the half note. Does that make sense? I'll make a picture later when I have time.
Well, using copy/paste should be less tedious, too, so I guess that will work for now.
Just as with most other palette elements, you can apply them to multiple notes at once by selecting the notes then double clicking the palette icon.
In reply to Just as with most other by Marc Sabatella
Thanks! This will definitely work. I only ever do that with staccato. Hmm....