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Instrument Numbering
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Description
Your idea
It is common practice to notate condensed parts in the following manner:
Problem to be solved
There is no simple way to do this in Musescore, and I'm not even sure that there is any way at all.
Prior art
No response
Additional context
This brings up a much bigger point though, which is having two similar instruments share a staff for the whole score. For that, please see post #25217.
Checklist
- This request follows the guidelines for reporting issues
- I have verified that this feature request has not been logged before, by searching the issue tracker for similar requests
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 MuseScore's existing instrument and staff-handling behavior, then read the related context in issue #25217. The issue does not name files, entry points, tests, or a sufficiently specific completion condition, so the desired notation and shared-staff behavior need clarification before implementation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
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