Allow wider-dashed and larger-dotted slurs/ties
See https://musescore.org/de/node/186016 and https://musescore.org/en/node/186221
The current dashed slus have to little space between the dashes, in https://musescore.org/en/node/186221#comment-696311 it can be seen how Finale draws them, in comparison to MuseScore.
Currently we're using Qt::DashLine, see http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qt.html#PenStyle-enum, "Dashes separated by a few Pixels", we'd need to change that or (maybe better) add as an extra option for "Wide Dashed", using Qt::CustomDashLine, "A custom pattern defined using QPainterPathStroker::setDashPattern()", similar to what line items got, although I'm not sure we need it configurable, but could settle for some fixed value, similar to what 2.0.3 does to (De)Crescendo lines and hairpins, "Wide Dashed" (just narrower, similar to the default settings for these in master, "Custom Dashed").
Maybe like the folloing (left "Wide Dashed", right "Dashed")
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See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/3139
This could even make it into 2.1. All (previous) 2.x version would show the slurs/ties as solid (and a blank filed for type in Inspector), but saving again (not altering those slurs/ties) would leave them unaltered, and show as wide dashed in versions that do support it
Fixed in branch master, commit f0d8aab7ca
fix #187556: Allow wide dashed slurs/ties
Fixed in branch master, commit 888cee8141
Merge pull request #3139 from Jojo-Schmitz/wide-dashed-slurties
fix #187556: Allow wider dashed slurs/ties
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.
Came up again in https://musescore.org/en/node/256081, can we (re)consider whether to include this in 2.2 too?
came up again: https://musescore.org/de/node/262937
There is a similar problem with dotted slurs/ties.
It's also a problem in exported sheets, in the program and the songbook app the space between every line or dot is calculated, but when the sheet is exported into PDF the space between every line is so small, that it looks solid if you don't zoom in 150%. The current dotted and dashed slurs/ties don't make any sense, I already tested it with musescore 2.2 release from today. I'm for replacing it, it reduces compatibility issues and could already be implemented, in version 3 it looks pretty good, and I don't think anyone will miss the old slurs. If it's possible, I would already be happy with a plug-in that makes them wider when exported in PDF.
The red circled slurs in the attachment are indeed dashed, but can't be displayed, because they are way to close together. Maybe change priority to major, because it affects all exported files.
In reply to It's also a problem in… by webfischi
Plugins can't do this
And it doesn't look like it will make it into version 2.3, it would be really great to have correct dotted and dashed slurs, without copying everything into musecore 3
If there is a backwards compatible way to get this into 2.3, and if there will be a 2.3, it will be done.
And it isn't major at all
Another option is to change the export behaviour, because the version in the editor and even in the app always looks correct. I don't know how complicated that would be, but it wouldn't change anything critical.
Browser remembered my last setting, maybe this is something which should also be fixed xD