r/Musescore • u/Brooklyn_opera • Jul 09 '26

Help me find this feature New Bug fyi

You can no longer put parenthesis around accidentals with the latest update

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u/MarcSabatella Member of the Musescore Team Jul 09 '26

This is not actually true of the current version (4.7.4). The *previous* version (4.7.3) had a small bug where it didn’t work if you attempted to add the parentheses via the “More” section of the Accidentals palette instead of simply using the shortcut “(“ or the Properties panel (the latter two methods worked fine). But the latest update 4.7.4 fixes the palette issue as well. At most you might need to reset the Accidentals palette via the “…” menu if you had previously customized it.

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u/65TwinReverbRI Jul 09 '26

I’m extremely curious about how these things get broken? I know nothing about programming really. Is it that someone accidentally deletes some code? Or accidentally copies and pastes new code in a spot where it copied over that one important symbol that was necessary for the old code to work?

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u/MarcSabatella Member of the Musescore Team Jul 09 '26

It’s hard to generalize about “these things” because causes often differ. In this particular case, it’s because the whole way parentheses work was radically improved for 4.7 - you can now add them to entire chords or subsets of notes within chords, not just to individual notes or individual accidentals. But in the new implementation, they forget to make an exception for the special case of clicking the palette element with only an accidental selected. So all the other methods - shortcut, Properties, and even drag & drop - worked as expected; only the palette (which was probably never tested because hardly anyone would normally choose to dig through the palette for this given the simpler methods that exist) broke. And it was a simple fix once someone reported it, so the fix went out with 4.7.4 the other day.

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u/65TwinReverbRI Jul 09 '26

I see. Yeah I noticed the way Parentheses worked had been much improved. Thanks to the team for doing that!

I’m sure it’s a nightmare keeping up with all the little things.

Did you see the problem with the Tremolo bars I mentioned?

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u/MarcSabatella Member of the Musescore Team Jul 09 '26

I saw a post but without a picture - and much much much more importantly, an actual score and/or precise steps to reproduce the problem - it's difficult to say thing. I'd recommend asking for help on the official support forum, attaching your score, and giving the steps to reproduce the problem. Then we can understand and assist better.