musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Notehead parentheses should avoid collisions with material in other voices
Open
@miiizen is already working on this.
Since Mar 2, 2026.
engraving
- Dominant language
- C++
- Stars
- 15.1k
- Forks
- 3.3k
- Avg merge
- 2d 2h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 91
Description
Your idea
Currently notehead parentheses do not consider other voices for collision avoidance.
Problem to be solved
Prior art
No response
Additional context
The left and right parentheses can be offset individually, so it is possible to manually fix individual occurrences.
Checklist
- This request follows the guidelines for reporting issues
- I have verified that this feature request has not been logged before, by searching the issue tracker for similar requests
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Assessment
This issue has not been assessed yet.