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[MU4 Task] Better support for bend/falls #16293

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mike-spa opened this issue Feb 9, 2023 · 1 comment
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[MU4 Task] Better support for bend/falls #16293

mike-spa opened this issue Feb 9, 2023 · 1 comment
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mike-spa commented Feb 9, 2023

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Our current support for bend/falls is admittedly quite poor. They can be edited in the score, but the line thickness can't be edited (in fact, the property panel displays nothing for these items).

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So I would say:

  • TASK 1: Make the thickness of bend/falls line an editable property (and consider if there are other properties that would be worth exposing there).

Second: the lines we provide are draw in-software, but we should also consider that there are dedicated SMUFL glyphs for these shapes, which look much better (and are designed to go with the music font, so jazz fonts have their own thicker ones etc). Of course the downside of those is that they can't be edited. Anyway, these glyphs can be now found and inserted via the master palette, but their default position isn't optimized.

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So I would say:

  • TASK 2: Move the Smufl glyphs for bends/falls into the same palette, so they are more discoverable.
  • TASK 3: Make sure that their default position makes sense.

See #16246 for some examples.

@mike-spa mike-spa added the needs design Design is needed label Feb 9, 2023
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Regarding line thickness, there is a style setting for bend thickness, but it only applies the guitar-specific bends from the Guitar palette, not the general scoop/fall/etc. A new style setting would be welcome, although frankly it would probably also be fine to just apply the existing bend thickness setting to both guitar and "normal" bends. Either way, an override in Propertiers for sure. Also, the style default should be one of the ones that varies according to the selected music font, so it can be thicker for the jazz fonts.

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