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Better looking slashes and crosses in guitar tablature

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Problem to be solved

These are slashes in Guitar Pro:
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And in MuseScore4:
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The steps to make slashes and crosses in Guitar Pro is:

  1. select a note or a chord, click slash in palette, then it becomes a big slash;
  2. select a slash, click dead note in palette, then it becomes a big cross;
  3. if clicking dead note when selecting note or chord instead of big slash, they will become small crosses instead.

Step 1 used to have bug in MU3 but fixed in MU4, tho the slashes don't look well in tablature, either version;
Step 2 is not achievable in MU3 or MU4. Trying to create a big cross in MU using the same step results in the picture above;
Step 3 is implemented in both MU3 and MU4, but the crosses looks weird in tablature. see also #11602 and #16500.

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Edit

as what Marc has said, we can actually achieve the Guitar Pro style manually, tho its not perfect or efficient. See my comment below for a step by step instruction. If further discussion of the workaround is needed, please continue in the musescore.org thread below, and keep this issue on topic.

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