Consistent Text Styles Despite Scaling

• Jun 11, 2012 - 20:08

When one applies a text style, it should be immediately and accurately applied throughout the piece no matter what the page scaling is set to.

CURRENT BEHAVIOUR: MuseScore scales the text font sizes (of lyrics, chord names, and so on) according to the space scaling set at Layout > Page Settings. A smaller page scale results in a smaller text size irrespective of the text style.

CURRENT WORKAROUND: Manually adjusting each piece of text every time page scaling changes.

DESIRED BEHAVIOUR: If a text style is set to e.g. 12pt, then no matter the scaling, it will be rendered as 12pt. Changing a text style will then also change all related pieces of text.

NEED FOR FEATURE: 10/10

(This is one of 8 features I am suggesting concerning printing/layout in MuseScore, with publishing houses' standards in mind. The score out of 10 is how badly I feel this feature is lacking.)

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• Jun 11, 2012 - 20:33

Hi, I don't know if you refer to the current stable release (1.2) or to the version under development (2.0); in any case, version 1.2 is practically closed and any development is for version 2.0

In version 2.0, each text style has a check box "size follows Space unit":

*) if the box is checked, texts belonging to the style will increase and decrease in size according to the scale set in "Page Settings" (for instance, you usually want the tempo indications to follow the global score scaling)

*) if the box is NOT checked, the texts it controls will keep the set size regardless of any score scaling.

This gives (complete?) control on text size behaviour.

At least, this is how the feature is supposed to work; if you find some discrepancies, please file a bug report!

Thanks,

M.

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• Jun 11, 2012 - 23:09

It *is* present in 2.0, and does work in my trials. text handling in general is *hugely* improved for 2.0, including true "styled text", where editing a text style automatically updates existing elements (unless you specifically set that element to not be styled).

Overall, I think you're going to be very pleased if/when you start playing with the nightly builds for 2.0. Its very unstable, of course, and not suitable for most "real" work, but it's very exciting to see what we have to look forward to!

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