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Musical symbol scale overrides within text are lost with copy/paste

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Since Mar 17, 2026.

  • #32672 by @miiizen — merged
P2 Pre-release feature issue UX/interaction
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Description

Issue type

UX/Interaction bug (incorrect behaviour)

Description with steps to reproduce

Musical symbol font size seems to copy/paste correctly, but for objects using scaling (harp pedal diagrams, dynamics, etc.) any overrides made to Scale are lost with copy/paste.

Supporting files, videos and screenshots

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d641f798-54c0-4c20-9f05-059f9983951b

In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?

Latest 4.7 nightly

Regression

No.

Operating system

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Additional context

Handling of symbol scale vs. symbol font size changes significantly with 4.7.

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