musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Notehead parentheses should avoid collisions with material in other voices

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Since Mar 2, 2026.

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Currently notehead parentheses do not consider other voices for collision avoidance.

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The left and right parentheses can be offset individually, so it is possible to manually fix individual occurrences.

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