shortcuts
Right now, shortcuts B and H seem to be tied together. I can't reassign one of them without the other being affected. That should not be necessary. Is this a bug or a feature?
When I define a shortcut that uses SHIFT + (a number) it's listed as SHIFT + (the punctuation mark above the number). That's not very helpful as a mnemonic to help me remember my shortcuts. I would rather see the shortcut listed in the list of shortcuts and elsewhere as SHIFT + (the number I chose).
I notice that a few actions have more than one shortcut assigned to them, but I see no way to define multiple shortcuts to a single action myself. Either tell me how to do that or add that as a feature.
The list of shortcuts in preferences lists the shortcuts in alphabetical order. I would also like to have the ability to list the actions that trigger the shortcuts in some kind of order, so that I can see what actions are available to make shortcuts out of. (BTW, I used Markdown syntax to try to italicize a phrase in the above sentence, but it didn't seem to work. Can anyone help me with this?)
The description of an action in the shortcut list and the description of the same action in the menu where it can be found are sometimes not the same. Please make all descriptions of a given action the same. I began to think there was no way to assign a shortcut to Add,Intervals,Fifth Below until I thought to look for ENTER interval fifth below in the list of shortcuts. As a minor suggestion, I'd prefer to see "5th" than "fifth" in listings because a) it's more recognizable to me and b) it puts similar items in the intuitively correct order. (fourth should go BEFORE fifth, shouldn't it? But fifth comes before fourth alphabetically.)
Comments
1) "B" is assigned, by default, to "Enter note B" and to "Enter TAB, fret 1". "H" is assigned, by default, to "Enter TAB, fret 7". Because the "Enter TAB" actions have two shortcuts, I would advise against changing them.
2) When you type a number, what do you get if you hit the shift key? You get the special character above the number. Shift+7 is &; Shift+4 is $. What else would you expect?
3) I have a recollection that this requires manually editing the shortcuts file, but I'm not sure of that.
4) There is no way of sorting the list of shortcuts at this time. That sounds like a good idea to me: you might want to propose that as a Feature Update, on github. Additionally, it would be nice to be able to search only in the Action description or only in the Shortcut as well as in both.
5) Two more good ideas and, as they involve merely changing text strings, these should be very easy to fulfill.
In reply to 1) "B" is assigned, by… by TheHutch
The Markdown that works (as far as I've been able to see) is
** (two asterisks) at beginning and end for boldface
* (one asterisk) at beginning and end for italicized
__ (two underscores) at beginning and end also makes it boldface
_ (one underscore) at beginning and end also makes it italicized
\ (backslash) to actually display one of these 'control characters'
` the left-leaning apostrophe at beginning and end makes
fixed-width, serif textMake a link with square brackets surrounding the display text, then parentheses surrounding the URL. That is, [Click here](https://www.google.com) makes Click here
Additionally, [node:####] creates a link pointing to an internal link of the form
https://musescore.org/en/node/####and uses the title of that URL as the display text. For example, [node:379887] creates shortcuts, pointing to this thread: https://musescore.org/en/node/379887# (one hashmark) at beginning of a paragraph makes a top-level heading
## (two hashmarks) at beginning of a paragraph makes a second-level heading
### (three hashmarks) at beginning of a paragraph makes a third-level heading
--- makes the horizontal rule above if it's in its own paragraph
Someone gave me https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/ but some of the codes on this page do not appear to work on these forums.
The ordered and unordered list appear to be simple text, not any sort of formatting.
A footnote[^1] does not seem to work. Nor does ~~strikethrough~~ nor ==highlight== nor superscript ( 5^3^=125 ) nor subscript ( H~2~O )
In reply to 1) "B" is assigned, by… by TheHutch
Thanks for your reply, TheHutch!
1) I don't write for guitar or other fretted instruments, so I don't need tablature shortcuts. But my point was that the B shortcut and the H shortcut seemed to be interrelated in that when I reassigned H, B was reassigned to the same thing as H without me doing it.
2) I know how the shift key works. I just want to have the DISPLAYED label for the shortcut more, uh, user-friendly. When you define a shortcut for ALT+7 the label says ALT+7; when you define a shortcut for CTRL+7, the label for the shortcut says CTRL+7; when you define a shortcut for CTRL+ALT+7 the label says CTRL+ALT+7; but when you define a shortcut for CTRL+SHIFT+7 the label inconsistently and unhelpfully says CTRL+(ampersand). I want to at least be able to control what the shortcut LABELS look like.
3) Shortcuts file?!!?!?!!!!?? Pleeze tell me where that is! I have read a lot of the user manual but I haven't found anywhere that tells the location of that file (or how to edit it). I have tried to search for it, but good ol' Windoze has MuseScore files in all sorts of different places and I don't think I know all of them.
4) I stumbled over the way to sort the list of shortcuts. In the Preferences,Shortcuts editor there are two columns: SHORTCUTS and ACTION. If you click on ACTION a little down arrow appears that lets you sort by actions (click it a second time and it turns to an up arrow and the sort is reversed). You can do the same with SHORTCUTS.
Again, thanks for your reply, TheHutch!
In reply to Thanks for your reply,… by tmclint
1) My apologies! I left out part of what I intended to say in response to this issue. I cannot see any "connection" or "interrelation" between these (or any other) shortcuts. I changed one and it didn't affect the other. Then changed the other and didn't change the first. Then I (separately) set both of them back to their default values and, again, they did not affect one another.
2) I would say that either of Shift+7 and & would be exactly as readable and understandable as the other. I don't know how to change the labels; as far as I know, you cannot. The only way I could think of would be the 'shortcuts' file I described in 3), which I don't know any details about. Sorry!
3) As I said, I don't know the details. Search the forum for other mentions of shortcuts.
4) OH KEWL!!! I didn't know that. "Ya larn sumthin' new ever' day ... er yer DAID!!" :-)
In reply to 1) My apologies! I left out… by TheHutch
Well, TheHutch, I'll go back and try again to redefine B and H separately. Another MuseScore guru gave me the Windows location of the shortcuts file (in C:\Users\your_username\AppData\Local\MuseScore\MuseScore4 and is named shortcuts.xml) so I'm gonna go play with that. I might even figure out how to make SHIFT+ampersand look like SHIFT+7. Anyway, thanks for the help!
- Tom McLintock
In reply to Thanks for your reply,… by tmclint
The shortcuts file for Windows is located at C:\Users\your_username\AppData\Local\MuseScore\MuseScore4 and is named shortcuts.xml.
There is another option to edit it: on the Shortcuts page itself, click the Export button to export the shortcuts to a file of your choosing. Then you can edit it in any text editor and when you are done, import it back by clicking the Import button on the Shortcuts page.
In reply to The shortcuts file for… by krasko78
Thanks, krasko78, for the info. I love twiddling these kinds of data files, UNIX/LINUX-style. There's always things you can do that the gui doesn't let you do. And of course I keep a copy of the original file in case the program barfs on my changes.
- Tom McLintock