Eyeglasses Symbol
Can I enlarge the eyeglasses symbol from the Bravura just a teensy bit?
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Can I enlarge the eyeglasses symbol from the Bravura just a teensy bit?
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Not if you place it as a regular symbol from the Symbols palette. But if you place it as text using the F2 palette, you can choose a size. The trick becomes *finding* it. Looks like the symbols in that font start at around page 220 of the dialog. I found the eyeglasses on page 236 :-)
In reply to Not if you place it as a by Marc Sabatella
It appears that once you insert it in that manner, you cannot change the font size. You must delete it and do it over until you achieve the size you want.
In reply to Font size by RAMALAM
? I didn't have any trouble changing the size? How did you try to do it? I just used the text toolbar at the bottom of the screen.
In reply to ? I didn't have any trouble by Marc Sabatella
Adjusting the font size dialog had no effect on the character. Maybe it's a Windows glitch?
Or could it have something to do with my having installed 'Bravura Text' as a font in the Windows font folder?
In reply to The same as you. by RAMALAM
It could. But in any case, you should not install these fonts at all!
In reply to It could. But in any case, by Jojo-Schmitz
Why should I not install such a fine font as Bravura? I thought doing so would make MuseScore operate better.
So where, then, does MuseScore 'hide' Bravura, Emmentaler and Gonville font files?
In reply to Do not install? by RAMALAM
Font location depends on OS, but in Windows and Linux it is compiled into the binary. On Mac I guess it is part of the "application package" or something like that.
The reason to not install these yourself is that if you do, MuseScore will use them, and your version might be an older or newer and incompatible. You don't worry about such things with text fonts because they are so standardized and never change incompatible. But music fonts are not so standard. SMuFL aims to change that, but any version of Bravura or Bravura Text before 1.0 won't be good.
In reply to The same as you. by RAMALAM
Which dialog do you mean? Could you list *exactly* the steps you are followng?
Here is how I did it:
1) click note, Ctrl+T
2) enter dummy text (letter "e", say) and hit Ctrl+A to select it
3) change font to Bravura Text using toolbar at bottom of screen
4) F2, find symbol, double click
5) Ctrl+A to select it
6) increase size using toolbar at bottom of screen
It also worked to define a custom text style "Big Symbols" that uses Bravura Text, create a staff text with dummy text, assign it that style using inspector, then edit it, F2, insert the symbol, and then use either Text Properties or Text Style to change the font size.
What doesn't work is changing the overall text properties for an element if you have set a custom font for some characters within the text. So I'm guessing that is what you did. MuseScore will apply the text properties settings to only the unmodified characters within the text.
In reply to Which dialog do you mean? by Marc Sabatella
I have to 'highlight' the item by left-clicking and passing the cursor over it. Then I can change the point size.
In reply to OK I figured it out. by RAMALAM
You can also use "Ctrl-a" to select all, as Marc suggests above. :)