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"Display in concert pitch" checkbox in Style settings affect expression and lyrics text placement

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Description

Issue type

Bug report

Description with steps to reproduce
  1. Open a score with expression text and/or lyrics text.
  2. Open: Style settings > Score.
  3. Locate the "Display in concert pitch" and "Enable indentation on first system" checkboxes, located next to each other.
  4. Mess around with concert pitch and indent toggles.
    Expected behaviour: The expression marks and lyrics should not be affected.
    Actual behaviour: The expression marks and lyrics symbols are affected in this manner:
  • Upon toggling "Display in concert pitch" once, regardless of its state, expression marks are offset downwards, onto a staff.
  • Upon toggling "Display in concert pitch" a second time, lyrics text is justified horizontally per-measure, or just moved horizontally, I don't know what's really going on.
  • Upon changing any engravement setting or closing the Style settings dialog, the incorrect placements are updated and reset to correct position.
Supporting files, videos and screenshots

Image 1: The normal score, as it should be displayed.
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Image 2: Toggling "Display in concert pitch" once causes expression marks to be offset downwards.
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Image 3: Toggling "Display in concert pitch" a second time causes lyrics to be moved horizontally. For example, look at the "der" syllable in bar 3. It is moved slightly to the left.
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Image 4: Toggling any engravement-related setting updates the placements. (I changed "Enable indentation on first system")
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I can also provide the mscz file I used to test this behaviour if needed.

In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?

4.6.5-253511702 and the latest nightly build.

Regression

I was unable to check

Operating system

Windows 11

Additional context

This only applies to the "Display in concert pitch" checkbox in the Style settings dialog, not to any other engraving action or the "Concert pitch" button located in the bottom toolbar.
The issue was not resolved by reopening the score or relaunching the application. The issue applies to the latest released version of MuseScore 4 and the latest nightly build.
(OS: Windows 11 Version 25H2 or later, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore Studio version (64-bit): 4.6.5-253511702, revision: github-musescore-musescore-653f38d). Qt version is 6.9.2

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