musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Another cross-staff beam slant issue

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Since Aug 22, 2025.

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Description

Currently:

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In a case such as this, with a single note on the one side of the beam, the notes on the other side, considered alone, should determine the slant.

We already do this properly in a non-cross-staff situation:

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So we just need to unify the logic.

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