Jazz Font Lines
I love the Jazz font for the title/composer/chord changes text but having line text(first and second ending numbers) in a more formal font looks jarring next to the handwritten style of everything else. Unless I am missing a way to change the font that is already in MuseScore, it would be great to have that feature in 2.0
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Do you mean voltas (1. and 2. at the repeat)? If so, right-click, select Line Properties. Press [Enter] and the font magically changes. You can also press the .... button if you want to change font and you can enter text instead of just the numbers.
In reply to Change volta font by underquark
Yes that's what I was looking for, thank you!
The only other thing I was looking for was coda symbols that match the handwritten font. Are they included as well?
In reply to Yes that's what I was looking by mcneely11
Not by design that I'm aware of. You can get close, though, by adding a standard Coda symbol and then clicking on it and pressing [Shift]-LeftArrow to select it and [Ctrl]-i to make it appear italic and then click anywhere else to de-select it (pressin [Enter] would just erase it).
In reply to Yes that's what I was looking by mcneely11
Yes, there are coda (and segno) symbols in the MuseJazz font! Enter the coda normally, double click it to edit, ctrl-A to select the text, then go to the bottom of the screen and change the font from MScore1 to MuseJazz. I usually up the size to 24 as well.
BTW, note MuseScore uses "To Coda" instead of the actual coda sign for, well, the "to coda", but you can also edit that, hit F2 to bring up the text symbols palette, and replace it with the coda sign - and change *that* to MuseJazz as well. If you try using the coda sign as a "to coda", it won't play back correctly.
Actually, almost everything in the F2 text symbols palette is available in MuseJazz as of 1.2, including the European characters, copyright symbol, etc. I should have added the note characters too, as then tempo markings would work better, but I'll get that for 2.0.
In theory, the MuseJazz versions of volta numbers, codas, and segnos *should* be used by default if you are using any of the Jazz templates, since the templates all try to set the appropriate text styles to use MuseJazz. However, for some reason MuseScore 1.X ignores the text style setting for these particular markings. That's why you have to change fonts by hand for these particular types of markings. Hopefully this will be improved along with a lot of other aspects of text handling for 2.0, but it doesn't look like that has happened so far. At some point I'll probably go through and make sure there are issues submitted for things like this.
In reply to Yes, there are coda (and by Marc Sabatella
Thank you for correcting my error. I get confused as some are symbols only but some symbols are actually glyphs in a font.
Re the "To Coda"; am I correct in saying that you can right-click on certain symbols (such as Coda) and change the "Marker Properties" to change their behaviour - e.g. using the squarish coda symbol "varcoda" and changing its Marker Properties to "cod" makes it behave like a "To Coda" indicator?
In reply to Thank you for correcting my by underquark
I wouldn't be surprised. If it works, that's probably less work than what I described.
However, one advantage of using "To Coda" is that it positions itself more appropriately by default - to the right of the attached measure instead of to the left.