Tempo text font
Working with MuseScore Studio 4.3. In practically all of the music with which I am familiar, tempo text such as rit., a tempo, and perhaps others is written in light italic, not in bold roman. I do not find a way to edit the font of such text and would like to be able to do so. Lacking that I have sometimes resorted to hiding the tempo text and adding expression text to get that appearance, but it is tedious.
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MS follows Gould rules. Tempo text is written above staff in bold.
If you want to change the default behavior, you can change the style.
Format => Style.
-Tempo text
-Text styles => tempo.
In reply to MS follows Gould rules… by graffesmusic
Tempo is for regular tempo elements, and they can be modified directly per-element via the properties pane. Gradual Tempo Change elements can't be though, and you'll need to modify via text styles.
I agree that there are publishers that do use, for instance, bold/non-italic text for the movement start tempo indication, but then (usually non-bold) italic text for at least some following tempo indications such as ritardandos and the like. But it's only the Gradual Tempo Change elements (rit. - - - - etc.) that you currently can't modify the text formatting properties for on a per-element basis - you can only edit the "Gradual Tempo Change" style for the whole score. You can also use "System text lines" (there's one on the Palette that shows as "System ---┐"), which won't affect playback, but you can choose a different font for all of those (actually it will affect all text line elements). For any tempo indications that don't need a line, you can edit each element independently (and create your own palette entries etc.) - certainly for "a tempo" that's not an issue (just select the element then use the properties pane).
Possibly worth a feature request to allowing overriding text formatting properties for "gradual tempo changes" and "text lines" on a per-element basis?
In reply to I agree that there are… by Dylan Nicholson1
Thank you for the clue about editing the Gradual tempo change style. I did that in the score I'm working on and it works like a charm.