musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Symbol added to symbol from Master Palette goes in the upper left corner

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Since Sep 8, 2026.

engraving P2 regression MS4 UX/interaction
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Description

Issue type

UX/Interaction bug (incorrect behaviour)

Description with steps to reproduce
  1. Add a symbol from a master palette. The symbol will go on whatever element you selected (in this case, the measure rest):
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  1. Add another symbol while the previous symbol is selected. The second symbol will appear on the upper left corner of the score instead that close to the first symbol
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Please not the using Ctrl+R reset the position of the second symbol where it was supposed to be (exactly over the first one)

Supporting files, videos and screenshots

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c5918f1e-4f12-4831-ad97-6f10f045bd5f

In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?

4.7.4

Regression

Yes, this used to work in a previous version of MuseScore 4.x

Operating system

Windows 11

Additional context

Can't be sure when this behaviour started, but it worked correctly at least until 4.5.

Having symbols attached to other symbols (and therefore moving all together mantaining the same relative position) is very useful to create customized symbols by combining existing one, and simply copypasting them, and but also for "fake" time signatures and other istances. A correct behaviour of this feature is quite important.

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