Rearrange font size after taking parts from written piece
Hi,
I wrote a score, but therefore I needed to write very small to get everything on the page. Now I finished the piece and I started with creating the parts. But now every tesxt is very small. Is there a way to change or to set the font size at the beginning of creation of the part?
Jvuz
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with the handbook, I attach a couple of examples...
http://musescore.org/en/handbook
In reply to http://musescore.org/en/handb by xavierjazz
I know how to change the text before editing, what I want is to edit all created text and set a font size for all (for instance tempo text) to the same size. I haven't found a way. Have somebody of you already found a way to do this.
In reply to I know how to change the text by jvuz
First:
set the font / size / color;
Then enter the time.
If you already entered:
Double-click on the Tempo text;
In the bar (at the bottom of the page) change the size.
(I hope I explained)
But this is for only one selected item. I wwant to do this for all items (that are the same). I know how to change something, just not for all.
In reply to But this is for only one by jvuz
Right click on one, select all similar.
In reply to Right click on one, select by xavierjazz
Sorry, already tried that ;), didn't work :(
I think you will have to wait for version 2.0 or, in the meantime, edit them one by one.
In reply to Sorry by Shoichi
I'm afraid I'll have to do that :(
A lot of work. Really a lot of work, pity.
In reply to I'm afraid I'll have to do by jvuz
Attach the score, say the size of "tempo text" you want, and I can lend a hand (I hope they are not 1000 pages) ;-)
Unfortunately, it's not as easy as it should be. One thing that helps is to make a separate copy of the score *before* generating the parts, and make the changes there. Then you can get more done at once. But you still have to deal with text items one type at a time. Staff text is easy - right click one, text properties, set the font size, clikc the "apply to all" option. A few other text types work that way too. You can do this for dynamics too, but "apply to all" only affects the same dynamic - eg, changing size of one "mp" marking only affects other "mp" markings. Chord symbols you affect by changing the text style. But tempo text you have to do one at a time.
I've gotten good enough at this that I can prepare a typical score for generating parts in a few minutes. Te key again is to do this on a copy of the score, not individual parts. If you have 20 tempo markings scattered through the scoe, at least that's only 20 changes you need to make, not 20 times the number of instruments.
But I'm looking forward to not having to do this once 2.0 comes out! The text styles will work better so it's easier to update all text items of a given type at once, and there is a facility to have separate styles applied for score versus parts.