musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Allow using a hyphen instead of chord symbol when the same chord is repeated with different bass notes, using slashes
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Description
Your idea
Using hyphens for repeated chords is quite common in lead sheets, so-called fake books and song books.
At the moment hyphen+slash is not recognized as a chord symbol by Musescore, so # and b doesn't get changed to proper sharp and flat symbols.
Interestingly, when excluding the hyphen, Musescore recognizes the bass note as a chord symbol.
This FR only addresses the notation aspect
Problem to be solved
Being able to use 'hyphen-slash' notation so sharps and flats are recognized and rendered correctly.
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Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the chord-symbol parsing and rendering code and its tests, then verify how slash chords handle repeated-chord hyphens; done means hyphen-slash notation is recognized and sharps and flats render as proper symbols.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100