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Tracker dots missing in Braille export

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Description

Issue type

Accessibility issue (e.g. for keyboard-only or screen reader users)

Description with steps to reproduce

Assume some piano music where one hand has lots of notes, and the other has only a few. The braille for the one hand will be much longer than the other.
For example:
4/4 time:
Right hand: Semiquaver scales up and down
Left hand: Semibreve at each bar.

Expected output:
When there is a large gap between the bars, (7 or more cells) in Bar-over-bar format, "tracker dots" (dot 3) should be used to fill the gap.

Example:
⠨⠜⠐⠽⠑⠋⠛⠷⠓⠊⠚⠽⠙⠚⠊⠷⠛⠋⠑ ⠽⠑⠋⠛⠷⠊⠚⠙⠵⠙⠚⠊⠷⠛⠋⠑ ⠽⠣⠅
⠸⠜⠸⠽ ⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⠶ ⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⠶⠣⠅

Actual output: The tracker dot 3s are missing:
⠨⠜⠐⠽⠑⠋⠛⠷⠓⠊⠚⠽⠙⠚⠊⠷⠛⠋⠑ ⠽⠑⠋⠛⠷⠊⠚⠙⠵⠙⠚⠊⠷⠛⠋⠑ ⠽⠣⠅
⠸⠜⠸⠽ ⠽ ⠽⠣⠅

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What is the latest version of MuseScore Studio where this issue is present?

4.5.2

Regression

No.

Operating system

Windows 11

Additional context

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