User Defined Text
I'm able to define User Defined Text 1-12, but there seems to be no way to assign it to any text. It does not show up anywhere in the Palettes / Text / More. I would like to be able to add my UDT to the Palettes / Text pop-up so it is easy to use.
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You can assign user styles to any text, just click the "More" button at the bottom of the Properties panel to expose this and a handful of other less common settings.
In reply to You can assign user styles… by Marc Sabatella
That's what I thought it should do as well, but when I tried it, while it does show some additional options, it does not show any of the 12 User Defined options.
In reply to That's what I thought it… by mpiercey
Are you on 4.0.2? Seems some earlier builds had a bug where these weren’t showing but they do for me now. Be sure to scroll all the way down.
In reply to Are you on 4.0.2? Seems… by Marc Sabatella
Yes, I'm on OS: Windows 10 Version 2009, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 4.0.2-230651553, revision: dbe7c6d. Does not show for me.
In reply to Yes, I'm on OS: Windows 10… by mpiercey
The 'Help, About, copy Info shows Win 10, but it is actually Win 11 Pro for the operating system.
In reply to Yes, I'm on OS: Windows 10… by mpiercey
That's not the Properties panel - that's the Palette. You need to first add a text element to your score, then in the Properties panel, you'll see the available settings:
I suspect confusion over palettes vs properties might also have something to do with your other recent questions,m but I'm not sure, as I didn't understand them.
In reply to That's not the Properties… by Marc Sabatella
Ok, I'm following you now. I was aware that I could change the properties of a text type from its default to the 'User Defined', but the description of that text (at the bottom left of the screen) still shows the default type selected from the Palette/Text (which can be confusing). I was hoping that I could assign the User Defined settings to the Palette/Text, and then from the Palette to the score, so that its description (ie User Defined 1') would show in the bottom left of the screen (and/or at the top of the Properties (used to be navigator) box - which was one of my other suggestions) which would allow me to tell which of the User Defined I had used for that element/style as there are 12 of them.
This is probably not a big issue if I was doing the score all at once as I would remember which one I used, but if there are hours/days/weeks in-between, it becomes a bigger issue.
In reply to Ok, I'm following you now. … by mpiercey
You can add any customized text back to your palette, so it can show what you like directly in the palette, and you can also customize the tooltip that appears when you hover over it (by right-clicking the palette item and use the properties of that palette cell). You can then easily add these custom text elements to your score. So, you can have 12 different custom palette entires if you like.
Of course, it may be that whatever you are trying to actually accomplish here is better done a simpler way - needing twelve distinct user styles would be exceedingly rare. So feel free to attach a score and describe these twelve different use cases in more detail.