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Resolves: #34839

Historical TAB duration grids have two problems: the modern-hook guard rejects edits to half and quarter notes, and the grid layout no longer computes horizontal connection lengths. Allowing the edits alone leaves bare stems and loses the duration information.

This revision fixes both. With Italian duration symbols, two quarter notes form a two-line grid and four eighth notes form a separate three-line grid. The earlier mixed half/quarter example and bare-stem “after” video were not valid expected results; the new score and recordings below replace them.

Changes

  • Allow basic beam-mode edits on hookless TAB chords with generated duration symbols. Keep ordinary-chord and inner-beam subdivision restrictions.
  • Calculate grid connectors after horizontal spacing, compensate for symbol magnification, and include duration symbols in chord shapes for collision handling.
  • Connect equal, undotted values within the same measure and tuplet. Respect group ends, rests and staff-type boundaries. Isolated, dotted, unequal and zero-beam-level cases retain their duration signs. This does not add mixed-duration or dotted grid notation.

Before and after

Both recordings use the same input, actions and 300% zoom. Apply Break beam left to notes 1 and 3, then Join beams to note 2 and notes 4–6; undo and redo the last operation.

Before: the previous edit-only PR revision. Edits are accepted, but the symbols become bare stems.

historical-tab-grid-before.mp4

After: the complete revision. Quarter and eighth groups retain distinct two-line and three-line grids.

historical-tab-grid-after.mp4

Download the recording input, saved result and visual regression score.

Validation

  • All 18 enabled Engraving_BeamTests.* pass; 4 pre-existing tests remain disabled. The native regression uses its own two-note MSCX and covers real EditBeam transactions, undo/redo, Reset beams, persisted beam mode, subdivision restrictions and an ordinary-notation negative control.
  • Restoring the original modern-hook guard makes the same edit regression fail at the first TAB beam-mode change; the other 17 enabled tests pass.
  • Visual coverage is in three scores: historical-tab-grids.mscz (Italian quarter/eighth grids), historical-tab-grid-boundaries.mscz (group ends, dotted/half/whole/unequal values, rests and measure boundaries), and historical-tab-grid-french-small.mscz (French duration font at 70% staff magnification).
  • The three scores produce identical draw data before and after the review's predicate refactor. All three distinguish the earlier edit-only implementation, which loses the grid connectors. Local validation is limited to these scores; the full visual suite and other platforms remain CI evidence.
  • The produced PNGs also match pixel-for-pixel. Local Debug batch export hits a callback assertion after producing the images in both the previous and revised builds; single-file export also hits an audio-shutdown ASan error in both. Diagnostic draw-data generation exits successfully. These exporter runs are not counted as passing CI.
  • Native Debug app and test targets build. The changed layout translation unit compiles independently, and changed C++ files pass upstream Uncrustify and git diff --check.
  • The existing recordings show the complete rendering fix and remain applicable. No new rendering behavior is introduced by this review revision.

Tests use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen and ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0:new_delete_type_mismatch=0. Source baseline: ce7067126406142e51eb7772b11fac239a1dc873.

Prior work and notation

#2235 introduced duration-grid selection through beam modes. The 2019 report gives the equal-quarter/equal-eighth example used here; #5304 restored the late connection-length calculation in the older layout architecture. This revision restores that step in the current system layout, rather than copying the obsolete layout call.

Craig-McFeely’s lute-tablature glossary, printed xxiii–xxiv, describes mensura germanica as usually grouping equal values within bars and illustrates historical duration mappings. That supports the replacement example, not a universal prohibition on more elaborate grids.

#22013 introduced hook restrictions for inner-beam problems (#21809, #21991), and #30467 later allowed long rests. Those subdivision and ordinary-notation restrictions remain.

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ChordRest::undoChangeProperty now permits beam mode changes except on tablature staves that generate duration symbols. Tablature duration-grid layout now computes connections and connector lengths, lays out symbols during system layout, and includes them in chord shapes. Tests cover beam mode editing, rejection, reset, undo/redo, persistence, and a tablature fixture.

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Historical TAB duration grids now retain duration symbols and connectors through editing and persistence workflows, with no outstanding merge-readiness risk identified.

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I can't quite see the point of this - by "beaming" the durations, you lose the flags which tell you what the durations actually are.

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@miiizen You're right — the result in the video loses the duration information, so it isn't a useful result as shown.

I based this on #2235, which uses beam modes to switch historical TAB duration symbols to a grid. The current guard rejects those edits for half and quarter notes because they have no modern hooks, even though the grid uses font-dependent beam levels. This patch removes that restriction, but leaves the grid rendering unchanged. The tests check the mode changes and undo/redo; they don't establish that the resulting notation is correct.

Before taking this further, could you clarify the intended behavior for the Italian TAB example? Should half and quarter notes be supported in a properly rendered duration grid, with the connecting lines conveying their values, or should these notes retain their individual duration symbols? If the grid is intended, I'll include the rendering fix and a visual regression test rather than leave this as an edit-only change.

The beam-mode edit alone replaced duration signs with bare stems because
connection lengths were no longer calculated after horizontal spacing.
Restore that late layout step and include duration symbols in chord shapes.

Connect equal undotted values within a measure and tuplet using the font's
beam levels. Preserve duration signs for isolated, unequal, dotted and
zero-level cases. Keep group ends, rests and measure boundaries intact.

Replace the mixed half/quarter example with a visual regression score for
two quarters and four eighths in separate groups. Cover real EditBeam
transactions, undo/redo/reset, save/reopen, group boundaries and scaled
French-font layout; retain ordinary chord and subdivision restrictions.

All 21 enabled Engraving_BeamTests pass with ASan; the same tests fail in
four historical TAB cases on the previous edit-only revision.
Native app builds and GUI editing,
undo/redo and save/reopen were checked. Upstream Uncrustify checks pass.

Refs musescore#34839
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Use equal quarter and eighth groups to demonstrate readable duration grids for MuseScore issue musescore#34839 and PR musescore#34840. Include the recording input, native saved result and owning visual regression score; supersede the mixed-duration example.
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@miiizen I checked the original grid implementation and the 2019 report behind #5304. That example uses two quarters in one group and four eighths in another. The connecting lines carry the duration information: two and three respectively with the Italian font.

You were right about the result I posted. My patch allowed the edits but left the connector layout broken, and the mixed half/quarter example was a poor test. I've replaced it and included the missing layout step in 1cd62b3. Isolated or unequal values and dotted notes keep their individual signs; this patch doesn't attempt the extra notation needed for mixed-duration grids.

The updated videos show the same edits before and after, including undo/redo. The native tests now check the connectors and retained duration signs as well as the edit state; all 21 Beam tests pass, including save/reopen and font/scaling checks. Could you take another look at the new example?

@0xMashiro 0xMashiro changed the title Fix ignored beam-mode edits on historical TAB half and quarter notes Restore historical TAB duration grids without losing rhythm symbols Sep 8, 2026
The standalone CI build cannot resolve Navigation in tlayout.cpp. Local unity compilation masked the missing direct include. Include the owning header so both build modes compile.

Validated tlayout.cpp, systemlayout.cpp and chordlayout.cpp as standalone translation units, rebuilt engraving_tests, and passed all 21 enabled Beam tests. Upstream Uncrustify passes. Refs musescore#34839.
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Fixed the unit-test build failure in 8c40986: tlayout.cpp used Navigation without including its header. My local unity build hid that dependency. The three changed layout source files now pass standalone compilation checks, and all 21 enabled Beam tests still pass.

I also inspected the VTests comparison artifact. Its only reported score is historical-tab-grids: the reference has bare stems, while the current image has the restored connectors and retained individual duration signs. These are the intended changes. The workflow deliberately reports failure when it finds visual differences, so that result needs visual review rather than another rendering change.

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93-97: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the join side in the beam-mode test.

The transaction records the changed range, and MasterScore::update() runs ScoreLayout::layoutRange(), which reaches SystemLayout::layoutSystemElements() and recomputes beamLength. No explicit score->doLayout() is required.

The test checks only second. Add an assertion for first:

     EXPECT_EQ(second->tabDur()->ldata()->beamGrid, TabBeamGrid::MEDIALFINAL);
     EXPECT_LT(second->tabDur()->ldata()->beamLength, 0.0);
+    EXPECT_EQ(first->tabDur()->ldata()->beamGrid, TabBeamGrid::INITIAL);
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Comment thread src/engraving/tests/beam_tests.cpp Outdated
EXPECT_EQ(second->beamMode(), BeamMode::MID);

score->deselectAll();
score->transactionManager()->transaction(TranslatableString::untranslatable("Reset TAB grid"), [&](Transaction& tx) {

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score->transactionManager()->transaction(TranslatableString::untranslatable("Reset TAB grid"), [&](Transaction& tx) {
score->transactionManager()->transaction(TranslatableString::untranslatable("Engraving beam tests"), [&](Transaction& tx) {

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Both transactions now use "Engraving beam tests". Updated in c3dcbea. The final include check also removed the unused Staff header in d5c8613; the test translation unit builds independently and all 18 enabled Beam tests pass.

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EXPECT_NE(first->tabDur()->text(), second->tabDur()->text());
}

TEST_F(Engraving_BeamTests, historicalTabGridBoundaries)

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This would be better as 2 vtests.

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Split this into historical-tab-grid-boundaries.mscz for the Italian cases and historical-tab-grid-french-small.mscz for the French font at 70% staff magnification. The unequal-duration case is also in the boundary score; the corresponding C++ layout assertions are removed.

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EXPECT_EQ(quarter->beamMode(), BeamMode::AUTO);
}

TEST_F(Engraving_BeamTests, historicalTabGridLayout)

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This would be better as a vtest.

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Moved the connector layout coverage to historical-tab-grids.mscz, reduced to the quarter/eighth groups. The native test now focuses on editing and undo/redo with its own two-note fixture.

// A grid replaces the individual duration signs. Only connect equal, undotted
// values; otherwise retain the signs rather than lose their rhythm information.
auto connects = [](const ChordRest* left, const ChordRest* right) {
return left && right && left->isChord() && right->isChord()

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Could you separate this out into some booleans please

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Split the predicate into named booleans for the chord eligibility, context, durations and beam modes, keeping the null/type guard first. Draw-data comparisons for all three visual scores are unchanged from the previous complete fix.

Separate duration-grid connection predicates for review and preserve the
existing rendering behavior. Keep edit/undo coverage in Beam tests with a
two-note fixture, and move appearance, boundary and French-font scaling
coverage into three vtest scores. Reuse the suite's transaction label.

All 18 enabled Beam tests pass. Restoring the original hook guard makes the
same edit regression fail, with 17 passes. All three visual scores have
identical draw data and PNG pixels before/after the predicate refactor;
the earlier edit-only implementation produces different draw data.
Standalone layout compilation and official formatting checks pass.

Refs: musescore#34839
The remaining Beam tests do not use Staff APIs. The test translation unit compiles independently without this include, and all 18 enabled Beam tests pass.

Refs: musescore#34839
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The earlier CodeRabbit suggestion to check the initial grid symbol is now covered visually by historical-tab-grids.mscz, alongside the connecting lines. Following the maintainer review, I moved these appearance checks out of the C++ test rather than adding another layout-field assertion. The native test retains the beam-mode changes and undo/redo checks.

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