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Chord symbols at system level (always visible)
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Description
Your idea
Create a feature for "system level chord symbols" that would always show above the top staff even if you have selected to hide empty staves.
Problem to be solved
If you have selected to hide empty staves and the staff that gets hidden contains the chords of the score, than the chord symbols will be hidden too. If there was a way to enter "system level chord symbols" the chord symbols would always show above the topmost staff.
Prior art
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Additional context
This has been discussed in several forum topics and would be a popular feature in many types of scores.
Contributor guide
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating existing chord-symbol handling and the hide-empty-staves layout path, then determine how system-level symbols would be entered and represented. Done should mean chord symbols remain visible above the topmost staff when other staves are hidden, with coverage for that behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100