musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Allow user to replace the appearance of music symbols used in MuseScore

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Description

Your idea

Support editing a specific musical symbol and allow it to be replaced with another symbol

Problem to be solved

In some scores, users might want to change the appearance of a specific music symbol. Currently you can add other symbols from master palette. But in some situation replacing them one by one becomes troublesome.

Prior art

There's an edit music symbol dialog in Dorico allow users to edit the appearence of a symbol.
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Research direction

The issue does not name files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the existing music-symbol editing and replacement workflows, then determine the scope needed for editing a specific symbol and replacing it with another; done means the requested workflow is supported without replacing symbols one by one.

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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

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