Highlight a section of music?

• Nov 4, 2017 - 13:56

Is there a way to highlight certain measure so it will appear I used a yellow highlighter?

Thanks.
Sandy T.

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• Oct 18, 2020 - 03:14

Hello Mike,

Thanks for this tip. It seems to work fine inside MuseScore. (See attachment).

Screen Shot 2020-10-17 at 10.10.04 PM.png

But when I export to PDF, there is no highlighting to be found. I have tried playing with Visible, Opacity, Z-Order, etc, but no luck.

What am I doing wrong?

Also, the line seems to be pushing my Staff Text up on the exported PDF; it should not be moving anything; just effectively highlighting. How can I fix that, too?

Thanks!!

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• Oct 18, 2020 - 03:40

The text and lines probably have auto placement turned on and are affecting one another so perhaps if you turn this off for the problem items it would help.

It looks like you are on a mac and changing the color at the system level using the Mac Color wheel. To change the color of the lines try clicking the rectangle next to Color: in the inspector and use MuseScore color picker. I'm no expert on Mac, but this is what I think the likely problem is.

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• Oct 18, 2020 - 04:11

>>>It looks like you are on a mac and changing the color at the system level using the Mac Color wheel. To change the color of the lines try clicking the rectangle next to Color: in the inspector and use MuseScore color picker.

Actually, I am using the rectangle you mentioned to select color, not anything at the system level.

I will note that muse has two color rectangles there. One at the object level, and a second below it at the line level. The latter didn’t change the color at all, even in muse, so I used the top one. But neither one results in any shading after export to pdf.

Maybe I will Print rather than Export... But this seems like a bug.

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