caesuraSingleStroke glyph is way too long

[hmmueller]

This issue came up in a MuseScore forum (https://musescore.org/en/node/334302), then I asked in the SMuFL project (https://github.com/w3c/smufl/issues/108) and was sent here:

The caesuraSingleStroke glyph currently is two spaces long, i.e. it touches the fourth line when centered on the fifth line (as it should be, but isn't always). This is not what this symbol looks like in all the scores that use this symbol as a caesura/breath mark. The symbol is used mainly - only? - in German-speaking countries, but here it is the primarily used caesura/breath mark symbol, e.g. in the current Evangelisches Gesangbuch (EG), which is used all over Austria, Germany, and Alsace-Lorraine. Here is a quick and dirty photo, showing nevertheless the standard form clearly:

Also many other scores by Strube, Bärenreiter and others show that this single-stroke caesura is always separate from the fourth line; and has a total length of between 1 and maybe 1.6 line spaces.

As Bravura is the reference implementation for SMuFL, it should IMHO follow the wide-spread practice and not contain a symbol which, in this form, is never used anywhere.

Harald M.

[Jojo-Schmitz]

The Catholic "Gotteslob" uses it too, but not consistently and throughout. Actually it used that caesura only occasionally.