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Inconsistent tie placement with chord brackets/arpeggio lines and multiple voices
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Description
Issue type
Engraving bug (incorrect score rendering)
Description with steps to reproduce
Thank you for implementing chord brackets! I've noticed some strange behaviour though when writing chords with ties that are supposed to cross a bracket. Steps to reproduce my example (Example A) are below. Also, I got the same results when using a squiggly arpeggio line instead of one of the new chord brackets (see Example B).
- Create two tied notes such as in the first bar in Example A below.
- Add a chord bracket and extend it up-/downwards to make it cross the tie.
- Add another note in a different voice such as in the second bar in Example A.
Expected behaviour: No change to the tie placement.
Actual behaviour: Tie no longer crosses the chord bracket with the additional bass note.
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Example A:
Example B:
In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?
4.7.3
Regression
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Operating system
Windows 11
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