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Options to have voltas all use the same bar number

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Description

Your idea

I'd love to have an option to have first and second endings use the same bar number automatically.

This can of course be accomplished manually with bar number changes, but it would be great if MuseScore could do this automatically. It would - to my knowledge - be the only notation app to offer this feature.

Problem to be solved

I primary notate traditional folk music, used for dancing. For these dances, the instructions refer to bar numbers. The instructions don't care about slightly different endings for the first and second time and will thus always refer to bars 1-8 for instance. And since dance instructors will refer to these bar numbers, the sheet music needs to match. Hence the identical bar numbers.

This image shows a typical piece of traditional dance music written like this:

Image

The instructions would usually be like this:
1-8 Circle to the left
1-8 Circle to the right
|:8-16:| Do something else

In this style the first and seconds endings will always have the same number of bars.

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No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the existing handling for bar number changes and first and second endings (voltas), then determine how an option could keep their bar numbers aligned automatically. Done means users can enable the option and obtain matching bar numbers for repeated sections without manual bar number changes.

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Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
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Over a week
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