musescore
Improve notehead parentheses layout of chords
Your idea
Currently in Musescore with the default Leland font, parentheses around noteheads will overlap with each other if the distance between the two noteheads is narrower than 2sp, resulting in an illegible appearance.
To solve this problem, I would like to propose two solutions:
- Move the top parentheses to either side to keep it away from the bottom pairs. (Acceptable, but not perfect)
- Similar to stave braces and brackets, use primitives to draw the parentheses instead of directly using the SMuFL symbols, whose height can be easily streched. (Ideal)
As a further feature, I would expect MuseScore can automatically decide the optimal parentheses pattern based on which notes you select in a chord.
In addition, in order to maximize the ability to change the parenthese pattern, I would suggest adding additional properties that allow the user to manually decide which notes should (not) be enclosed in the same pair of parentheses.
Here is an example where a checkbox is added. Checking/unchecking the checkbox will force the selected notehead with parentheses to merge with/seperate from the lower pair.
Problem to be solved
Improve notehead parentheses layout of chords.
Prior art
Dorico has this feature.
However, Dorico by default adds one big pair of parentheses that enclose the whole chord; and for each note in the chord, there is a checkbox to "split" the parentheses at the note's position, which I found not very convenient in practice.
Additional context
No response
Came up again in the musescore.org forums: https://musescore.org/en/node/375105
