musescore
Feature request: Add angled brackets to a palette for tablature harmonics
Describe the bug
See https://musescore.org/en/node/81366. The use of a pair of angled brackets around a tablature fretmark is a common way of indicating harmonics. Currently you have to add these indications as text; not ideal, as they appear above the tab staff and need to be carefully positioned individually. Also, the angled brackets are often rendered out of place in major updates.
Given that parentheses can be easily added to a note/fretmark from the palette area, surely the same could be done for a pair of angled brackets.
Note: IME, the best fit are single left- and right-pointing angle quotation marks (U2039 and U203a). .
Nice! This is one of those things we'll get to when we release an update dedicated to guitar after 4.0. Closing for now until we open up 4.x issues.
Thanks :)
Just adding brackets won't be enough, though. When using linked staves for notation and tablature, you still couldn't write harmonics where the pitch of the (theoretical) fretted note is different to the actual sounding pitch you'd want to show up in the notation staff (i.e. any harmonic other that the 12th fret). Plus, some harmonics don't coincide with fret numbers, yet are commonly used on electric guitar with distortion, for example:
This is an example of how Hal Leonard publications notate harmonics. Note that they don't use brackets at all (maybe due to the limitations of Sibelius). Fractions are input as text rather than actual notes.
