Applying line properties to all selected similar elements does not work
I've imported a Sibelius XML piano score which had pedals. The pedals are rendered with a different style from the one I want. I've selected one pedal first, then all pedals with the tool for selecting all similar elements, but when trying to apply new line properties to all, it only changes the one I've manually selected, and not the others. I recall being previously successful with this kind of operation. Any Idea of what can be happening? I'm using Musescore 2.1
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"Select all similar" allows you to change Inspector properties for all occurrences of an element at once. Unfortunately, it does not allow you to change right-click properties for more than one element at a time.
There are plans to abandon right-click properties in favour of Inspector properties in future versions of MuseScore.
It would also be nice to be able, from the edit style menu, to globally change all pedal properties. Currently, one can edit very basic properties of trills and pedals. Since they only have in common the fact that they are special lines, I think it would be better to have specific styles for each of them, such as default position and, in the case of pedal, all the right-click properties such as kind of text or hooks.
In reply to It would also be nice to be… by fmiyara
You can create you own pedal (and many other elements) by taking the default one and editting it. Then create a custom palette and [Ctrl][Shift]-drag your bespoke element over to that paeltte so you can use it again later.
In reply to You can create you own pedal… by AliTheMunchkin
Re inserting them from a custom palette may or may not help. OP said he imported the file so the lines are already there. Inserting lines is enough of a pain because most of them require you to use the mouse and you usually have to select a start and end point for the line, so editing them is normally faster if they already exist. However, the kind of editing the OP needs to do is tedious and repetitive. One thing that might make it go faster is to use copy and paste in the edit dialog. You have to use ctrl+c for copy and ctrl+v for paste, but this will help speed up the process quite a bit over retyping the same thing.
The fastest way to make the same change on all of them is to go into the XML and do a global replace, but I'm not going to go into details about how to do that.
In reply to Re inserting them from a… by mike320
Even if I've already made the changes manually (for the record, I did copy and paste, but there were other operations--pasting twice and removing initial hook), the possibility of editing the XML is a great piece of advice which I should have thought of, thank you!
In reply to You can create you own pedal… by AliTheMunchkin
I actually meant to have the possibility to globally adjust previously inserted pedals.
In reply to I actually meant to have the… by fmiyara
We' have to see how this works in 3.0. There are apparently big changes in the works concerning the inspector.