musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Create a box around a music staff (or anything)
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Since Aug 21, 2026.
engraving
needs design
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Description
Your idea
We use Fill Boxes for our advanced guitar notation. They need to be surrounded by a box. The box needs to be scalable to the size of the fill box:
Problem to be solved
There is currently no good way to do this, and it is a requirement for being able to engrave guitar notation in MSS.
Prior art
Sibelius has a line element that is a box that can be added
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8e71de76-9e6a-4584-bbb1-f38d4445a164
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