3.5 alpha: Shifts of Colored texts made in 3.4

I'm not sure I understand the issue. I can see the layout is different, but I suspect that is because of bugs fixed in multiline text elements - they were spaced incorrectly in earlier 3.x releases. For instance, blank lines were way too small in 3.4.2, and it looks like you tried to work around this by using multiple blank lines to space things better, then you performed further manual adjustments based on the size of these elements. But now that the bug is fixed, the multiple blank lines are bigger than you intended and your manual adjustments are off.

I think that is all that is happening here, anyhow. If you can produce a simplified example showing something else, please let us know. I don't think color has anything to do with it, though. As it is, I think it's just an adjustment those of us who were manually working around that those bugs will need to make.

See for instance #292652: Blank lines of text consisting only of a RETURN are too small in height on some scores

Ah, yes, makes sense. In that case this 'bug' here is by design (and an unfortunate victim)

I kind of expected we'd get a few reports along these lines when that PR was merged, and I fully expect I'll need to update a few of my own handouts. Although I did try not to rely on blank lines for spacing, knowing that this was a bug that might get fixed. Anyhow, hopefully it's fairly rare to have scores so dependent on the previous behavior.

I know I did rely on this on several of my scores. The majority though are one-time-use sheets for the 'audiance' (visitors of the church service we're providing the music for). The other's I'm gonna fix on the fly, i.e. on next use/change.