Option to choose which of the two Slash Notation styles is the default

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#27,743 opened on Apr 18, 2025 0 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 45/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: cpp
Domain: desktop

Research direction

Start by tracing the Toggle Slash Notation tool and the notehead type panel, which currently expose the two slash styles. Done means users can choose slanted rectangles or diamonds as the default for long slash-notated rhythms, and the toggle uses that choice.

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Description

Your idea

In musescore there are two different slash notation styles for half notes and above: one is slanted rectangles and the other is diamonds.

Currently the Toggle Slash Notation tool always adds slanted rectangles. I find the diamonds a lot more readable, so I end up swapping them via the notehead type panel. However, I have to manually do the swap each time.

I'd be nice if we could choose which of the two styles we'd like to have as a default.

Problem to be solved

There's no option for choosing the default style for Slash Notation's long rhythms.

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