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Feature request: Add angled brackets to a palette for tablature harmonics
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Description
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).
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the linked MuseScore discussion and how the palette currently adds parentheses to note or fretmark elements. Determine where paired angle quotation marks belong in the palette and tablature rendering, then verify that they remain attached and correctly positioned around a harmonic fretmark rather than behaving like manually placed text.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100