It occurred to me that some of the complexities we are regularly facing with linked staves may stem from the fact that the current concept of staff linking gathers together two rather different types of links:
1) The *score part <=> separate part* link: the basic idea here is that the two staves are the same representation of the same music and then the separate part is a rather exact copy of the part as it appears in the score and the majority of the details should be linked, with the possible exception of the 'outermost' features having to do, for instance, with page layout (scaling, line breaks, and so on). 2) The link between *two different staves in the same score*: the basic idea here is that the two staves are two different representations of the same music and then, in principle, the majority of the details -- above the 'innermost' ones, like note pitches -- should *not* (could not? might not?) be linked. By far the most common case of this kind of link is the link between staves of different types, and it is not possible to take for granted that any or most aspects of one representation can be transferred to the other. An example occurred to me, while working on this PR <https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2235> , having to do with beaming in historic tablatures. Beam mode is currently a linked feature and in case 1) above (score part & separate part) this makes perfect sense; but in case 2) above (two different staves linked together) it does not (or not necessarily): beaming practices might be different in the two representations (in fact they *are* different) and the beaming setting for one might be inappropriate for the other. I have no ready-made answer or solution, not even a clear idea of all the sides of the matters involved and I assume the border lines defining the 'innermost' or 'outermost' features evoked above will anyway be a matter of compromise. But I suspect this concept of staff linking deserves some more thought and/or re-evaluation. Thanks, Maurizio Note: the idea floating around since a while of allowing linking / unlinking of individual elements would affect this point only marginally. To expand on the example given above about beaming, unlinking the beam mode of a single chord (assuming this would ever be possible) would not be particularly useful, as the point is that, by default, beaming mode should be linked for all chords in case 1) but unlinked for all chords in case 2). -- View this message in context: http://dev-list.musescore.org/Some-thoughts-on-linked-staves-tp7579522.html Sent from the MuseScore Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mscore-developer mailing list Mscore-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mscore-developer
