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Add support for nested tuplets in MusicXML
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Since Oct 10, 2025.
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Description
Issue type
Engraving bug (incorrect score rendering)
Bug description
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Steps to reproduce
Consider this input file created by MuseScore.
Exporting as an uncompressed MusicXML gives this file, which is fully correct, AFAICS (except that the selected <divisions> value 480 can't be divided by 9 without rest, which is somewhat fishy IMHO).
However, re-importing this MusicXML file into MuseScore fails completely:
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MuseScore Version
OS: openSUSE Leap 15.5, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore Studio version (64-bit): 4.4.0-241240305, revision: github-musescore-musescore-f8db23c
Regression
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Operating system
GNU/Linux
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