Tempo Copy/Paste error or by design?
In handbook about tempo is written:
"Select the note or rest where the tempo should be added.
Open the Tempo palette and double-click a tempo marking style to add it to the selected note or rest. "
The stave text is also attached to note or rest - isn't it?
But look at the example of cut/paste - we see, that tempo is attached not to note but to some "specific place" of the bar (bar line) and after moving group of notes (Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V) we will get very different playback.
At least, this behavior does not match the description.
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Comments
You are right that the tempo text is not actually attach to the specific note internally, but nor would you normally want it to - changing or deleting the notes shouldn't normally delete the tempo marking you originally attached to that spot. Anyhow, I don't see the mismatch. Yhe Handbook says that in order to add a tempo marking, you click a note or rest, and that is accurate. But is there a place where it says copy & paste of notes will copy tempo markings? I don't know of one. We don't copy them on purpose, because most of the time you wouldn't want them to. Same with voltas and some other things that are more score-wide.
For the record, neither staff text nor tempo text are actually attached directly to the note or rest you select when adding the text. What you are really doing is selecting the time position and staff/voice to which you wish the text attached. It's just that usng a note or rest is the only way to do that; there is no command to select a specific time position on a single staff independent of the note or rest that lives there. Yu can however enter notes or rests, use them to attach text, then remove the notes/rests and leave the text behind (eg, by using the Selection Filter to exclude the text from the selection).