musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Provide mechanism for changing brackets mid-piece
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Description
Your idea
Provide mechanism for (manually) changing brackets mid-piece. Adding, removing, changing span.
Forcing brackets/braces to draw mid-staff should also be possible (common with cutaway scores, changing divisi, etc.).
Changing barline span onwards from a certain point in the score (not just overriding single barlines) will likely also be necessary.
Problem to be solved
Needed to deal with a number of situations, e.g. cutaways, certain instrument changes, player changing position in score, divisi, etc.
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Additional context
See also #21986, #24158.
Also consider consequences for positioning of bar numbers (e.g. #32893).
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