Text list feature
I remember a text list feature from 1.3 that allowed to indent text lines in order to create unordered lists similar to those in word-processing programs. Has this feature been completely abandoned in 2.0? I would love to see it again! :-)
I couldn't find any corresponding thread, please be so kind as to hint to any discussion about this feature.
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I do not think any such feature ever existed in MuseScore. But if you want to create a bullet list or other fancy bit of formatting, easiest would be to create it in a program that specializes in text formatting, then copy and paste it into MuseScore.
Hello Marc, thank you for your reply! I am quite sure this feature existed for a while, since I remember it was quite unstable still...
As a workaround, the solution you propose is okay - although directly pasting the text into MuseScore does not work for me. It is quite inconvenient, especially for small changes (open text editor, save and export file as png, import in musescore). In addition, when exporting the musescore file as pdf, the embedded png looks unsharp (any idea, which dpi number is preferable?).
Is it thinkable to dynamically embed image or even pdf files, which then would be automatically updated in MuseScore? Probably, this would be even more elegant and promising, than to include different text editing features of this kind...?
In reply to Thank you for your reply. I by jschwalm
I tend to use SVG format these days when importing embedded graphics into MuseScore. The benefits are that as it is a vector image and not raster it can be rendered without loss of detail by the PDF engine.
You can find many examples of the output on my MuseScore.com account - a good beginning would be this set...
http://musescore.com/user/9641/sets/23983
In reply to Thank you for your reply. I by jschwalm
OK, it's certainly possibly it existed at one point in an experimental nightly build. I just know it is not in 1.3 nor was it in any other officially released version.
Anyhow, I wasn't talking about embedding images, although I guess that works too. I meant copying and pasting the eptext itself. You would just need a text editor that copies formatting to the clipboard as plain text rather than expecting receiving program to recreate it. I assume these programs exist. And in any case, you can also insert bullets as ordinary characters in your text from within MuseScore using the text symbols palette (F2).
Considering MuseScore is a notation program and not a word processor, I would think this would be more than sufficient for the relatively infrequent times bulleted lists appear in notated music?